Launchpad Entry: desktop-karmic-gnome-3
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Summary
The specification describes how Ubuntu will work on the new GNOME3 components, what packages will be available and where and what tasks the team plans to work on
Rationale
Ubuntu is a GNOME based distribution, having the new versions and components available early will benefit the distribution, users and GNOME
User stories
- Users will want to try the new GNOME components and be able to test GNOME3, it will be easy to do so from Ubuntu
Assumptions
- The new components will be available to universe first and until being ready to be used by default in which case they will be considered for the desktop installation
Design
- The new components will go to universe
- The current components updates will be packaged the usual way
- The team will work to make the desktop applications use the new libraries
Implementation
- gnome-shell will be packaged in universe
- zeitgeist will be packaged in universe
http://www.gnome.org/~fpeters/299.html has the list of cleaning tasks, the team will work on cleaning api usage in the desktop applications and especially libgnome*, libgnomevfs, libglade, other libraries are probably too much work for the karmic cycle
UI Changes
- No interface changes out of the standard GNOME updates changes
Code Changes
Migration
- No migration required