2008-10-16
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)
- Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- Ted Gould (tedg)
Agenda
- Outstanding actions from last meeting
- (kwwii) Status of splitting of gnome-themes package
- Release Status
- Review activity reports
- Any other business
Status of splitting of gnome-themes package
kwwii asked about the status of splitting the gnome-themes packages, however since we are now in final release freeze, this kind of change is simply too invasive and will be deferred to jaunty.
Activity reports
Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
- generally lots of bug fixing before release
- continual poking and discussion about why language packs are still totally incomplete
- commit our plasma improved logout patch upstream
- fix samba support in kio-smb
- add back KDE 3's mediamanager needed for easy music player support in Amarok
- Various fixes to install-package and language-selector
- Checking and uploading patches to Adept
- Fixing casper for kubuntu documentation
- half day archive admin
- fix taskjuggler compile
- Various discussions on the bluetooth problem, no resolution
todo:
- RC
- keep poking people until complete language packs appear
no milestoned bugs
Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)
- gconf settings for panel bg fix (finding which keys to set, etc)...now finished and in intrepid human-theme package. going to learn more about how to put these gconf changes directly into a theme
- rounded ff gtk discussion: we changed gtkrc's, talked about patch with asac...now we found out that the patch will not go in until 3.01, reverted everything in gtkrc
- wallpapers, themes, etc. all in intrepid now
renamed NewHuman to DarkRoom, edited theme to have more contrast in the tabs, darker more saturated colors #275271
- little green man...figuring out what to do about this
- made branding svg for kubuntu
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Assigned Intrepid specs: all implemented
Currently open intrepid targeted bugs: all killed ATM
Other non-chores work done:
- Lots of RC and other bug fixing
- gphoto digicam handling is finally fixed for good now
Sponsoring:
- cut quite a dent into the queue and processed everything which I can reasonably judge and shouldn't be postponed
- abiword, curl, gdm, g-p-m, gnome-terminal, gzip, libexif (intrepid/hardy), nis, nvidia-graphics-drivers-17{3,7}, nvidia-settings, pm-utils, tracker, ubuntu-docs, ubuntu-wallpapers, ubuntu-artwork, human-theme
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
(This is for the past two weeks, since I wasn't at last week's meeting.)
- Various internal Canonical stuff, and Launchpad design feedback.
Polished fglrx upgrade text for Michael Vogt. <http://paste.ubuntu.com/50556/>
- Several discussions with Ted Gould about handling upgrades to the new status menu.
With Evan Dandrea, discussed renaming the live CD the Test Drive CD. <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/live-cd-and-persistence>
2008-10-06 ~ 2008-10-10: Attended Gnome User Experience Hackfest. Many ideas are now published on the Gnome wiki. <http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest>
- 2008-10-11 ~ 2008-10-13: Attended Gnome Boston Summit. Had good discussions about accessibility options, and presenting system settings in general.
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Milestoned Bugs (with intrepid task):
- #278112 - Screensaver does not start with compiz
- #19021 - should run dpkg --configure -a automatically
Milestoned bugs (targets of opportunity for me):
- #267749 - libflashsupport removal in u-m
- #276606 - maintainer script failure in rkhunter (universe)
- #277301 - maintainer script failure in djvulibre (universe)
- #283155 - bug in pythons urllib, not easy to trigger, might need a workaround
Upgrades:
- Add quirks handler for kdelibs4-dev to kdelibs5-dev (#279621)
- work on debian-cd to make small adjustments for the "we have no uncompressed packages files anymore" case
- fix hang in partial upgrades mode (on cleanup)
- add code to the xorg_fix_intrepid script to remove input devices after the xserver 1.5 upgrade (hal is used now) and add apport suppotr
- fix race between apt.cron.daily and the release upgrader
- merge the aptcdrom update-manager branch that can deal with missing uncompressed Packages files on the CD
revert fglrx->ati transition now that we have fglrx
- fix crash with gconf and kde tempfile handling
- fix crash when etckeeper was used in large installations (sigpipe issue)
- Upgrade testing
compiz:
- 0.7.8 upload into intrepid
- work on the compiz crash #145360, no progress, upstream
- Debug/fix gnome-control-center appearance issue (#275744) with update compiz/plugins-main/plugins-extra
- Fix broken scalefilter compiz module (plugins-extra)
- debug/discuss focus handling problem with upstream and merge fix into wall plugin
desktop:
- write fusa-migration script and fusa-migration note and add it to the gnome-panel package
- the gstreamer sync from last week expect a different name for the codec search app (gstreamer-codec-search), update the code
- Update gnome-app-install to have alternative
- Gnome-app-install bug triage, fix crashes/bugs
- Debug/fix quoting problem in update-notifier apt-cdrom-check
misc:
- Hack on debconf to remove the "cancel" and "close" buttons in the gtk frontend and sent the patch upstream
- sponsoring (gnome-control-center, smart, unattended-upgrades, ...)
- test new fglrx driver
- try to get updated translations from rosetta for update-manager, but all I get is 404
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- lot of desktop bug work for intrepid
- some desktop updates
- sponsoring, cairo, gnome-control-center, f-spot, file-roller, libxml++
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