OneiricReleaseStatus

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General status

  • New weekly upload, this time for the FF, so earlier in the week
  • Unity 4.8.0 landed on time
    • with new lenses views, supported by the new API and shared library changes
    • with the BFB reshuffle
    • with window spread support in ALT-Tab
    • and some extra blur (the fallback trigger still needs tuning)

    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/4.8.0

  • Unity-QT followed on its heels
    • with mostly the same new lenses, but slightly behind, being a bit short-staffed (fixed now)
  • Compiz-0.9.5.90 released as well, albeit after the official FF to scatter releases for didrock's own sanity
    • test packages available in launchpad.net/~dbarth/+archive/ppa
    • fixes decorator performance issues

    • test plan at at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/QA/CompizReleaseProcess with additional elements concerning the decorator being tracked in parallel

    • we may request a FFE if the test results supports the request; otherwise will fallback to the previous version
    • gsettings has been dropped from the scope of O, in agreement with Platform
  • Indicators: a significant update of the system indicators was delivered, on time as well
    • scanner, webcam detection added to devices menu
    • track and player specific support added to the sound menu
    • greeter mode added to several indicators for use in the greeter
    • libindicate got GTK3 support and fixed GIR namespaces
    • libindicator support for qt-sni icon changing
    • app indicators support for middle click activation for specific menu items (power user feature)
    • messaging menu item to clear the signalling
  • UTouch: delivered the last work item on time as well
    • Both eog and evince can now benefit from the utouch stack goodness: hurra!
  • CJK issue
    • Testing continued with OEM, no feedback from the call for testing on u-devel though
    • Work on ibus progressing according to expectations; which should have test branches next week, and on track for a solid fix before Beta 1

Bugs on the radar

  • [805063]: on the work list, will start fixing those regressions next week

  • [806358]: probably a driver issue, passed to Jay for further investigation with the xorg team

  • [809378]: didrocks on top of it, was fixed but there is a further regression elsewhere

  • [814065]: invalid, design guidance sought

  • [810145]: incomplete, investigating to get a reproducible test case