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Weekly Summary

• Enable GNOME control-center shell .desktop file, gets exposed in unity search and session indicator now, as per design team spec. (pitti)
• Fix XPI and Firefox search plugin handling in langpack-o-matic. (pitti)
• New natty langpacks, now with working Firefox translations; maverick-proposed ones will be fixed in the next two days. (pitti)
• Add sanity check to dh_scour to compare SVGs before/after optimization and leave them untouched if they differ. (pitti)

• Completed bug fixes reported by Epson for the automatic printer driver download. Now it is confirmed by Epson that it also works behind a proxy (tkamppeter & pitti).

• LibreOffice

  • updated openoffice.org-dictionaries lp#726335 lp#707439 (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • updated hunspell (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • updated hyphen (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • updated libreoffice-l10n lp#729727 (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • updated openoffice.org dict transitionals (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • some support for Alberto on the lo-menubar implementation (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • ongoing: reenable launchpad integration lp#696524 (bjoern-michaelsen)
  • ongoing: 3.3.2 will go final in the next days

Partner update

UbuntuOne

• FFE: bindwood update for firefox4 still planned

DX

• indicator-datetime
  • still some significant crashers, we are hoping to have it mostly stabilized this week.
• overlay scrollbar

  • Available in a ppa (https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-scrollbar-team/+archive/release).

  • possible ffe bug 730740

    • this doesn't include the overlay scrollbar module itself
    • no new news on the topic

Unity

• Back to normal business: whole unity release this Thursday (unity-place-files, unity-place-applications, libzeitgeist, libunity, nux, unity)

  Full story as aways, available at https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/3.6.4

• Some hilights:

  • Alt + F2 si back \o/ You can have some additional candies like path browsing in it, non-in-path executable and desktop file (icon) matching Still some work to do to support ~ and "launch in terminal", but the main piece is there

  • Dash with keyboard navigation. There are some known issues (like enter doesn't really trigger the fist item element), but that will be fixed next week.
  • We got back the place activation, meaning that now you have the "available items" like in maverick to be able to launch software-center on a non installed application

  • Lots of bug fixes as usual. A huge thanks to all our volonteer community contributor for all the fixes they are commiting. The number is tredemensly growing and it's almost hard for us to keep up on merge requests

• We try to bring back broken daily builds right now so that people can enjoy latest and live on the edge again!

• Zeitgeist 0.7 will be synced (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zeitgeist/+bug/732551) this week

• incoming compiz fixes, especially for decorator crashes.

• You can keep up on the FFe requests there: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/NattyReleaseStatus

Software Center

• Breaking news!! The awesome RAOF has fixed the root cause of the recent pervasive SIGSEGV crashes on software-center startup \o/

  • LP: #259219, thanks Chris!!

• With new feature development complete, the Software Center team is now focused on:
  • Triaging and fixing bugs
  • Increasing stability and reliability
  • Visual tweaks and other UI refinements
  • Additional startup time improvements and general speedup
  • Usability enhancements as needed
• Released Software Center versions 3.1.23.1 and 3.1.23.2, includes:
  • Lots of nice enhancements and visual improvements, particularly in the ratings and reviews feature
  • Lots of bugfixes

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