Hello Erich, I'd like to invite you and the rest of the Studio folks to our next community meeting! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2019-June/011797.html
It will be Friday, June 14th at 2200 UTC on #xubuntu-devel. Feel free to join in and let's have a fun discussion. :-) Thanks! Sean On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 4:40 AM Pasi Lallinaho <p...@shimmerproject.org> wrote: > Hello Erich, > > the two places you mention – #xubuntu-devel and the mailing list – are the > correct places to follow changes we might be making that might also affect > you. > > Sometimes some discussion might also slip into #xubuntu-offtopic even if > it shouldn't. I guess we all should keep a closer eye on posting to the > correct channel(s). > > Lately, as Xfce has been migrating towards GTK3, a lot discussion has also > happened on #xfce-dev, so you might want to join that channel as well. > There shouldn't be any Ubuntu-specific discussion as-is, but changes > required from/sensible for distributions using Xfce have been discussed > there as well. (I guess a few Xubuntu-specific comments might also have > made there, but again our team should try to keep these in #xubuntu-devel.) > > Again, what you describe sounds pretty sane/comprehensive already. If you > have the time and patience to go an extra mile, I welcome you to make more > noise on #xubuntu-devel; we will happily work with you and help you out > with any Xfce-related questions you might have. If you have any > suggestions/ideas on making the Xfce defaults in the Ubuntu ecosystem > better for us all, we will happily hear those as well. > > The Xubuntu team is relatively small as well, so replying might take some > time. Most of the time we do get back to things, but if not, feel free to > repeat your question. We will eventually get there... :) > > Cheers, > Pasi > > On 24.5.2019 21.32, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > > Hi all, > > If you don't know who I am, I'm the current leader of Ubuntu Studio. > Most of you also know that our default desktop environment is Xfce, so > we share a lot in common. In the past there had been at least some > collaboration, but that seems to have gone away in recent years, mostly > due to a lack of participation on the Ubuntu Studio end. > > I'm trying to figure out the best way to stay up-to-date on the default > configuration and packages. The quasi-deprecation of xfce4-volumed > caught us off-guard, and now, for several releases, we have a version of > xfce4-volumed that does not reconnect to PulseAudio if it is restarted. > Apparently, and from my own tests, xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin does this > much better, and the indicator-* packages should be removed from our > seed. I have put forth the request to do this and have modified our > panel for future releases to use the pulseaudio plugin. > > I guess I would like to prevent information like changes to the default > panel from being missed in the future. Unfortunately, I have no idea how > to do this. Perhaps somebody has some ideas on how we can accomplish > this and work together. I monitor #xubuntu-devel on IRC, and I'm now > subscribed to this list, but if there's any other way for me to be > notified about things that affect Ubuntu Studio, such as changes to the > default Xubuntu desktop (which we should mirror), let me know. > > Thanks, > Erich > --- > Erich Eickmeyer > Council Chair/Product Leader > Ubuntu Studioubuntustudio.org > > > > > -- > Pasi Lallinaho (knome) › https://open.knome.fi/ > Xubuntu Website Lead › https://xubuntu.org/ > Xfce contributor › https://xfce.org/ > Shimmer Project co-founder › https://shimmerproject.org/ > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > -- Thanks, Sean Davis http://about.me/sean_davis
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