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Weekly Summary

• Removed the last rdepends of hal, finally went to universe. (pitti)

• Desktop CD growth tracked down to dpkg-repack, fixed. (seb128, pitti)

• Landed new pygobject upstream version with some minor API changes. All rdepends fixed. (pitti)
• Rewrite/fix XPI handling in langpack-o-matic; next langpack build will bring back FIrefox translations. (pitti)
• Fixed paste keybinding in GNOME Terminal
• uploaded libreoffice-3.3.1-1ubuntu5 to natty main as debian will not release a 3.3.2rc1 version (bjoern-michaelsen)
• uploaded libreoffice0-l10n-3.3.1-1ubuntu (first 3.3.1 l10n package in natty) (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • armel should be fixed with this, however there is a failure in postinst of ca-certificates-java, so we can not be sure
• lo-menubar:

  • we now have a proof of concept (in LibreOffice Basic) for dynamic menus (like the "Recent Files:" menu). They are tricky, because they generate their content the moment they display. (bjoern-michaelsen with aruiz)

  • we have a concept on how to solve the issue with labels in the submenus and state changes there. (Like "cant undo"/disabled changing to "undo: typing foo"/enabled (bjoern-michaelsen with aruiz)
• Firefox now has Unity menubar integration by default (chrisccoulson)
• We're now providing daily builds of Thunderbird 3.3 in the ubuntu-mozilla-daily PPA (as well as development snapshots in the thunderbird-next PPA)

Partner update

UbuntuOne

• FFE: bindwood update for firefox4 still planned

• FFE: adding ubuntuone-couch to universe bug 729117

  • cli tool for managing couchdb in the cloud

DX

• https://launchpad.net/unity-foundations to replace https://launchpad.net/ayatana-ubuntu

• FFE: indicator-datetime, browsing calendar widget should update appointments bug 726531

• overlay scrollbar

  • - initial packaging done and uploaded in a ppa (https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-scrollbar-team/+archive/release). Two releases already in! - seb128 to review the gtk patch for possible ffe bug 730740 - this doesn't include the overlay scrollbar module itself

Unity

• New unity release on Monday!
  • "What, on Monday? yeah Monday!". As we skipped the release on Thursday for alpha3 (we had a bug fix released on previous Tuesday morning for the record), we decided to do our next new shiny release yesterday! And it paid of, a lot of bug fixing in this one:
  • The most annoying unity-window-decoration crash were fixed (but some are still there)
  • Some unity crashes are part of the past as well (and same for the migration script)
  • A huge speed improvment to the places
  • some minor "-" search fixes
  • lot of launcher improvments in its behavior. Seems though that it still likes to play the "I'm here even I shouldn't" game. Next release will add some debugging code for those wanting to hunt those false positives!
  Upload was concerning compiz/dee/libunity/unity-place-files/unity-place-applications… and of course, unity! Back to business with a usual release on Thursday (but the Launchpad rollout will probably force us to do the release a little bit earlier)

As usual, for the full story https://launchpad.net/unity/3.0/3.6.2

• The team is mostly switching on a bugfix mode. I computed a list of most annoying compiz/nux/unity issues and they are tagged as top priority. So, we can hope to get most of them fixed very soon.
• There is still a pending new dialog refactoring in compiz, it will require a FFe if it goes in. Nothing clear yet.
• Also, a new zg synced from debian will probably be needed. Kamstrup is doing a review to put some proper number on speed improvment to see if it worths the FFe.

Software Center

• The ratings and reviews "usefulness" feature has been rolled out for Alpha 3
  • Allows users to "vote" on the usefulness of a review
  • Reviews are sorted by version/usefulness/date
• Improvements to the details view
  • Nicer layout and cleaner visual design
  • Much faster to display
  • Fixes for intermittent hang bug and layout errors
• Software Center is feature-complete for natty, we are now concentrating on:
  • UI refinements and performance
  • Continue startup time improvements
  • Bugfixing and stability
• Released Software Center versions 3.1.21, 3.1.22 and 3.1.23

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