This page keeps track of the current release status of the Desktop Team.

What was done engineering wise?

• new libusb-based USB CUPS backend
• Improved Plug'n'Print UDEV facility of system-config-printer
• First printer driver packages using new libjbig are available now: foo2zjs, splix, c2esp
• Got some quickly/python-distutils-extra fixes and support for the arb team during the app developer week
• Work in progress on new gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center
• Continued work on the UI design for Additional Drivers in software-properties
• Fixed chromium-browser (18.x) FTBFS in quantal
• Worked on updating chromium-browser to latest in the stable channel, 20.x
• Libreoffice 3.6 is getting ready for upload in quantal
• Get a branch ready for merging into Unity, so that Unity uses libatk-bridge.
• First round of indicators updates in quantal, including new session indicator
• First round of unity 6 serie updates in quantal, not so many user visible changes but lot of bug fixing and foundation work
• Working prototype of system compositor + intel driver

• Experimental lightdm,system compositor work ready to test, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2012-July/003890.html

What's about to land that might impact the other teams?

• compiz on gsettings

Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable)

• No specific list yet for quantal

Dependencies on other teams to make deliverables, blocking items, release wide concerns?

• None

Blueprints

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+specs?searchtext=desktop-q-

Burndown and spec completion levels:

• For alpha-3 milestone: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/canonical-desktop-team-quantal-alpha-3

• Entire cycle: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/canonical-desktop-team.html

Release targetted bugs being worked on/monitored

under investigation:

triaged/in progress:

• 932598 [Full hard drive causes xorg and lightdm to fail to load]: Fixed mountall to create tmpfs /tmp on foll disk, as earlier Ubuntu releases used to do. lightdm still needs a fix.

• 870297 [lightdm logins not being logged in wtmp]: there is a merge request which went through a first review round

Fix committed, but not uploaded yet:

• 872701 [Keyboard layout doesn't change in screensaver lock dialog]: there is a fix upstream, should be included in the next gtk upload

Fixed since last report:

Cumulative Desktop Release Notes

Archive of previous weekly summaries

2012-07-06

• Wrote some integration tests for different desktop components
• Improved libusb-based USB CUPS backend a lot
• A Software Updater redesign landed and the release upgrader was moved to its own package
• Desktop SRUs for precise
• Accessibility work unity and unity-panel-service
• Unity 6.0 and Nux 3.0 release preparation (with the lenses transition).
• New firefox,thunderbird beta version
• Work on libreoffice 3.6 beta continued
• Compiz on gsettings is getting ready
• Uploaded x1.12 into ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport
• Working with debian on making libdrm_nouveau new and old abi parallel installable using f17's patch
• Working upstream on dma-buf synchronisation problem
• lightdm,system compositor work is ongoing
• some GNOME updates
• software-properties port to python3 got uploaded

2012-06-29

Done: * libreoffice 3.6.0 beta2 pre-released in a ppa for precise and quantal

• work on "ubuntu drivers" (jockey replacement) continued, including port to python3 (waiting for review)
• gtk got updated, included new a11y libraries and accessibility on by default
• xserver 1.12 got uploaded
• compiz "one tree version" (i.e all the components merged in one source) got upload
• work is on progress on orca-python3
• GNOME 3.5 updates
• update-manager work continued, included reviews and some of changes landing to trunk (should make their way to distro soon)
• new firefox beta version in quantal including some fixes to our customization changes

2012-06-22

Done:

• Didier has been sprinting in London with the #ps unity packagers to get them up to speed
• The new unity SRU round has been prepared and should be uploaded soon
• The decision has been taken to build unity with gcc-4.6 until the stl abi issues are resolved
• work on update-manager refresh continued
• duplicity got updated
• GTK 3.5 and GNOME updated landed in quantal
• Desktop updates
• Bugs fixing and SRUs
• Improvement to our tracking tools (versions)

2012-06-15

Done:

• Ongoing work on hybrid graphics support
• X.org 1.12 is now available in ubuntu-x-swat/x-stagin
• Continued on SRUs for precise
• Updated GNOME a11y stack to latest unstable release

• Uploaded PulseAudio 2.0 to quantal

• The next SRU round for the unity stack is being prepared
• Libreoffice 3.5.4 SRU has been uploaded and is waiting for SRU team review
• The work on the system compositor advanced enough to start the lightdm work
• The work for the ui redesign of the third party drivers started

2012-06-08

Done:

• firefox and thunderbird 13 have been updated for all supported ubuntu series, work started for the next versions in quantal
• Libreoffice 3.6.0-beta1 is getting ready for quantal (in a ppa for the moment)
• Update Manager got a slightly new look, more to come in the future
• GNOME 3.5 updates in quantal
• The team continued on merges and python3 porting
• The system compositor work is seeing some good progresses
• Unity build issues on quantal are being investigate (the build issue have fixes available but unity,nux segfaults when building with the new gcc, that's being investigated)
• Some SRUs for precise

2012-06-01

Done:

• Specs writing is done
• Continued on SRUs for precise
• Good progresses on the third party drivers installation spec
• New firefox (13) and thunderbird are ready for the coming release
• Got firefox to build with the quantal toolchain
• Libreoffice 3.5.4 SRU is ready for upload
• Work on xorg for lts point release updates continued
• compiz got refactored to be only one source rather than five, the packaging got updated and the new version is finally building

2012-05-25

Done:

• Catchup after UDS
• Specs writing
• Started quantal work, merges, some updates
• Some SRUs for precise

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