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Weekly Summary

• Thanks to Matthias Klose, LibreOffice landed in Natty now.

• Some more updates to the GNOME3 PPA

Unity

• New unity landed this week
  • a bunch of bug fixes and the dash has its first release (really early prototype though)!
  • a lot of accessibility improvments as well.
  • we got an intermediate upload to fix an annoying "invisible unclickable window" bug.
  • the places have been rebuilt to drop some packages from the archives, the big come back is for this week release.
  • still some stacking issues (menu disappearing, windows not clickable) in compiz. Apparently, there is a fix proposed, so fortunately, this will be fixed this week.
  • also, some specific issue with nvidia card (black screen) still there, as well as launchers weird behavior in some cases.
  • libunity is now a new source to make the foundation API more unrelated to the view.
• Next week, on your almost natty alpha2 computer:
  • full release upload planned on Thursday with working places (\o/), miscellaneous improvements and still bug fixes.
  • another "final" upload on Monday evening/Tuesday morning (european time) with crusty fixes and small incremental changes for getting ready for alpha2.
  • a compiz upload which should speed the startup time and fixes some annoying bugs (no ABI break planned).
• Misc:
  • we know we have a lot of false positives of "your computer can't run unity" because the detection tools take more than 3s to answer on a cold cache (and the timeout was 0.5s, then 1s). For now, I'll upload a gnome-session package with a timeout of 5s for the release. The detection tool loads 15 MiB of libraries which can explain that. Some work on that planned for alpha3.
  • support of multiple fallbacks added to gnome-session. So, if you install unity-2d, the fallback for the unity session is unity-2d instead of gnome-classic without a warning message in that case.

Software Center

• Startup Performance
  • Some nice improvements this week reducing startup time an additional 1.2s+ on the Dell Mini 10 reference:

    • http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/software-center/mini10-startup/startup-times.png

• Ratings and Reviews
  • Server-side:
    • New release expected this week, includes many improvements and bugfixes
  • Client-side:
    • Development and testing continues in branch lp:~mvo/software-center/reviews
    • Plan is to land feature in trunk this week for final testing and then release for alpha 2

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