Actions from previous meeting

Actions from this meeting

Weekly Summary

• Discover breakage of new launchpadlib, file 686690, discuss with LP guys; revert to previous version for now (MartinPitt)

• Do remaining package rebuilds to optimize SVGs and PNGs; now they are as small as they can get (MartinPitt)

• Finally landed aptdaemon and language-selector GTK3/pygi ports (MartinPitt)

• Got OO.o to build again for Natty, to fix installability and reduce CD size by 10 MB (MartinPitt)

• Fix remaining breakage of the Python 2.7 transition; CDs are now installable again
• gobject-introspection caused brief breakage through a library rename, but all should be settled now (mterry)

• nm-applet leaks now under control (MathieuTrudel)

• dbusmenu, libindicate, appindicator updates landed fixing python and GIR issues, required rebuilding of all indicator related packages. (KenVanDine)

Unity

• New unity release (bamf/nux/unity), add intellihide (not yet activated by default, you can find it in ccsm under autohide). Floating will be deprecated. We have an unity binary now to launch unity from a python script.

• New compiz snapshot with abi breakage (transition done). Some fixes like session integration or gnome-panel pager applet support (new path)
• Lot of changes in compiz default settings, like disabling ezoom scrool, add workarounds and snap by default

• As gconf path changed and new Compiz settings, you should reset your unity configuration. unity --reset is taking care of that for you.

• gnome-session is now ready to handle the new fallback system and should be on your system. Testing plan of the unity detection module from next nux release (current one has some known segfault issues) for /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test set.

Software Center

• Cool new feature: "Search Help" - alternate spelling suggestions are now displayed when no results are found for a search

• Ratings and Reviews

  • Specification is now complete: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/RatingsAndReviews

  • Ratings and Reviews alpha server deployment in progress, targeted to land next week
  • Client implementation being updated per new server and specification details at lp:~mvo/software-center/reviews

• Further list view performance improvements

• "Find it in the menu" disabled for Unity LP: #639701, new solution for finding newly installed apps under Unity currently being designed

• Software Center 3.1.5 and 3.1.6 released includes search help feature mentioned above, bug fixes and other improvements

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