2008-07-03

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For minutes of previous meetings, please see DesktopTeam/Meeting.

Present

  • Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) - chair
  • Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
  • Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)
  • Martin Pitt (pitti)
  • Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
  • Michael Vogt (mvo)

  • Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

  • Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
  • Ted Gould (tedg)

  • Pedro Villavicencio Garrido (pedro_)

Apologies

Agenda

Outstanding actions from last meeting

  • MacSlow to update clutter to appropriate version, not worrying about parallel install

  • seele to follow up with Jono about usability testing swag

  • MacSlow to merge goffice, seb128 to help him understand what's going on

Actions from this meeting

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

  • fixing seeds and making packages installable for intrepid alpha 1
  • intrepid alpha 1 CD testing
  • hardy.1 CD testing, all ready to go
  • archive administration (most of a day)

blocked:

  • 1 main inclusion report still needing review
  • Kubuntu website

next week:

  • investigate getting knetworkmanager 0.7 working
  • on holiday July 7 to 11

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

  • NewHuman metacity changes: button outline and gradient changes, different vertical top gradients to better show an area to grab, fixed focused/unfocused title text position bug.

  • NewHuman gtkrc changes: link and activated link bug fixed (thanks Neil!)...it only fixes a few apps but that is better than nothing, colour choosing fixes, murrine-nautilus-location fix (ugly blue bar in trash window), removed all highlight_ratio entries for specific widgets, now it only uses global highlights, also increased highlight slightly, although I think that making the menu selection highlight less hard glossy (different murrine gloss style) might be better, tweaking colors (lighter input bg colors since all text editors use that as the document bg), adding nautilus

bg color. (Thanks to Conn O'Griofa for the help)

  • Human-Murrine and Human-Clearlooks gtkrc changes: both had colour problems with GtkProgressBar widgets embedded in other widgets - for example, in Deluge. Also if you changed the selected fg colour, Metacity's colour would change unexpectedly. Those issues are now fixed. Removed some highlight_ratio entries for some widgets, increased global highlight slightly.

  • LOTS of discussion about the dark theme. Ars Technica takes a decent light on it and gets the point whereas the forum doesn't (someone said I should be shot :p) I did not expect this amount of response and apprently did not

realize how many people install and/or look at screenshots of our alpha's (more of the later I guess). Gosh, Ubuntu is popular Wink ;-)

  • Looking into fonts (and licensing thereof). The Liberation fonts are simply the best freely available document fonts - we need to use these as default in OOo and similar apps. The droid family is a pretty good screen-optimized

condensed font, in some ways better than it's MS older brother. From what I can find online it is released under the apache license but there are no available downloads other than a direct copy from the Android image which includes no license. If anyone has any information on the droid fonts or knows someone at google to figure out the licensing let me know.

  • ibex wallpaper work on the side, nothing amazing yet

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Only a 2-workday-week due to me being on holidays from Friday to Tuesday.

Intrepid specs I am drafting:

  • intrepid-device-permissions, consolidate-spell-checkers, jockey-printer-driver-support: approved
  • kernel-abi-package-handling: some difficulties to implement it properly in apt in a way that it works with aptitude; currently being discussed with Debian
  • gdm-guest-account: still drafting, no progress on that due to vacation and 8.04.1 release; no email response from upstream yet, will try again in IRC

Currently open milestoned bugs:

  • - 8.04.1: None

    - Intrepid: #224697 (Disable hibernation if swap is on file), #232428 (guile 1.6 -> 1.8 transition): will do later, specs go first

Merges:

  • all done until last Thursday; libmtp popped up over the weekend, trivial merge, will do soon (pretty pointless, though, Debian just accepted half of our patch, no new things for us)

Other:

  • Extensive 8.04.1 CD testing
  • Evaluated system-configy-users as a possible candidate to replace gnome-system-tools, sent detailled report to u-desktop@.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

Launchpad 2.0

Michael Vogt (mvo)

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

Seconded to experience team

login-experience/gdm-face-browser:

  • current upstream gdm (20080702) fails to compile due to missing structure definition of pam_xauth_data in libpam, which is neither part of hardy or intrepid, still trying to find a solution for this

merges:

  • goffice and gnumeric, issues with static libraries caused some headache
  • dealt most of the week with pbuilder and PPA to get goffice and gnumeric compiled and tested

misc:

  • remaining travel preparations for GUADEC'08 and distro-sprint



  • switched to pure desktop-upstream as of this week

todo:

  • update spec for login-experience/gdm-face-browser to reflect design changes
  • update spec for sparkle-plugin to reflect altered work-focus
  • continue with sparkle implementation (as time permits)
  • assigned bugs: 130441, 141432, 147966, 151395 (milestoned), 152844, 164670, 200146, 206809, 144472, 152271 (milestoned)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

  • GNOME 2.22.3 updates for hardy
  • some other srus updates too
  • lot of bug triage
  • archive admin tasks
  • some intrepid updates
  • tried to get compiz working on intrepid but it's still too slow to be used where an hardy installation on the same machine works correctly

Ted Gould (tedg)

Seconded to experience team

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