Status

Scratch list based on some initial conversations.

List

• UNE Application Selection (registered at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-une-app-selection)

• Web-based productivity app integration
  • Zoho looks ideal
  • Can we create a package so that Zoho can replace OOo for users who choose this?
• Communications
  • Skype integration for Empathy?
• Touch
  • Application Selection: touch friendly apps
  • Touch support in xorg
  • Touch design guidelines
• Mobility

  • Integrated WiMax support? (some areas have lots of WiMax)

  • Battery Life: Can we set up recurring tests, like for start up time?
  • Is external monitor support an important scenario? how to support it?
  • HDMI support, do want this to work?
  • Geo-location, is this something we want to invest in?
• Delivering Applications to a stable release
  • How to take the PPA integration in software-center a step forward
  • How to maintain quality that users are accustomed to while making it possible to reach users of a current release
• Desktop for Application Developers
  • The desktop should be it's own IDE
  • Contribute to a project
  • Fix a bug
  • Start and run a project
  • Easy access to API documentation

• Quickly (registered at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-quickly/)

• Quidgets
  • Target core application developers
  • Target application developers
  • Embody good visual design and usability
  • Easy and Fun
• Image Scenarios
  • Can we refine the users interaction with their pictures and images?
  • Simple Scan as model for simplicity
• Desktop Application Selection
  • Time to consider Chromium?

• OneConf to rule them all (https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-oneconf)

• Overriding defaults at upgrade, even if the user has changed the default and then changed back again.
• A great Python API to make programming Telepathy easy and fun.
• Open Office
  • can we make it smaller, faster
  • can we make a stand along install of impress that is reasonably small?
  • can we make the java install experience better?

• Colour Management (registered at https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-color-management)

  • Can we ship basic colour calibration for everyone? (Collected database of profiles, easy way to use profiles embedded in Windows drivers)
  • Can we make it easy for people who care to do proper calibration?
• Restore applications for fresh installs, using U1
  • when you do a fresh install, we could run a wizard that looks at U1 and asks if you want to install the following apps

• Social From the Start (registered at https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-social-api)

  • Expand the Gwibber API to provide access to social data without talking directly to couchdb
    • APIs for photos, links, etc
  • libgwibber, create a C library for accessing gwibber and then generate bindings for other languages
  • Photo browsing of albums shared by friends via the gwibber API (blueprint only, no discussion)

• Create a Gwibber test suite (registered at https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-gwibber-test-suite)

• Messaging (registered at https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-empathy-indicator)

  • Port empathy indicator patch into a telepathy approver (blueprint only, no discussion)
• Language-selector
  • Add a walk-through configuration wizard
• LTS support
  • Reintroducing SRU exception for stable GNOME/KDE/OO.o point releases
  • Introducing SRU exception for OpenJDK microreleases?
  • Review of previous experience in Hardy