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Strategy Document
Process Descriptions
Developer Documentation

Roadmap for Quantal Quetzal

This page is to serve as a development roadmap for the next version of Xubuntu. Click here to see the current status of development.

Phases of development

Phase	Deadline
Brainstorming and finding assignees	End of Week 19, UDS Q
Approving blueprints	End of Week 20
Finalizing blueprints and specifications	May 31, FeatureDefinitionFreeze
▶ (Further discussion and) implementing	Ubuntu freezes, Aug 23 and later
Read more about the phases on our Strategy Document.

New features, major bugs, improvements to community

Note that any items with no assignee will not be driven, and most probably won't make it to the release.

Item	Assignee	Importance	Links
Review the Strategy Document	Pasi Lallinaho, community	Essential	Blueprint Old Strategy Document New Strategy Document (reviewing)
Review the QA procedures	Janne Jokitalo, Pasi Lallinaho	Essential	Blueprint
Include Xfce 4.10	Lionel Le Folgoc, Micah Gersten	Essential	Blueprint
Refresh the offline documentation	Pasi Lallinaho, community	High	Blueprint
New Plymouth theme	madnick	High	Blueprint
New LightDM theme	madnick	High	Blueprint
Analyze and optimize boot times	Janne Jokitalo, Pasi Lallinaho, testers	High	Blueprint
Website improvements	Pasi Lallinaho, Elizabeth Krumbach	Medium	Blueprint, Specification
Review terminal theme	Simon Steinbeiß, Pasi Lallinaho	Medium	Blueprint, Specification
Albatross theme facelift	Simon Steinbeiß, Pasi Lallinaho	Medium	Blueprint
Improve Bluebird theme	Simon Steinbeiß, Markus Klinga	Medium	Blueprint
Rethink elementary-xfce icons concept	Simon Steinbeiß	Medium	Blueprint
Explore possibilities of desktop search	Sean Davis, Simon Steinbeiß	Medium	Blueprint
Add more launchers to Settings manager	Unit193, community	Medium	Blueprint, Specification
Xubuntu marketing initiatives	Elizabeth Krumbach, community	Medium	Blueprint, Marketing wikipage
Implement Keyboard-Shortcuts overlay/window	Sean Davis, Simon Steinbeiß	Low	Blueprint, Specification
Ubiquity application sets	Janne Jokitalo	Low	Blueprint
Umbrella blueprint for appearance blueprints			Blueprint, Panel layout spec
Ideas that are postponed for now
Ship apt-offline by default	-	-	Specification
Add optimum partitioning option to install options	-	-	-
Add DVD support to Xubuntu restricted extras	-	-	-
New Panel Plug in: Disk access monitor	-	-	-

Changes on default applications

Items in this group (usually) need comprehensive application comparisons. An assignee for each "group"/type of application should take up the task, ideally more than one to make it less subjective/one-sided.

See existing rows for example.

Application group	Proposed (Current)	Assignee	Importance	Links
Package manager	Lubuntu Software Center? (USC, Synaptic)	Pasi Lallinaho, Simon Steinbeiß	High	-
Monitor management	Improve xfce4-display-dialog	GridCube	Medium	-
Media player	Listen, DeadBeef? (gmusicbrowser)	GridCube	Medium	Specifications
Backup App	Deja Dup, ? (-)	-	Medium	-
Video player	Improve Parole	-	Low	-
Webcam Application	Cheese?	GridCube	Low	Specifications
Menu manager	MenuLibre, LXMenueditor, (Alacarte)	-	Low	-
Terminal	Sakura	-	Low	-
Image editor	? (GIMP)	-	Low	-

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-[[http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-flavor-xubuntu.html|Click here to see the current status of development.]]
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-||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> --('''Brainstorm''')-- || --(Week 47)-- ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> --('''Find Assignees and Approve''')-- || --(End of November)-- ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> --('''Finalize Launchpad blueprints and specifications''')-- || --(Dec 29)-- ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> '''▶ (Discuss and) Implement''' || Ubuntu freezes (Feb 16 and later)<<BR>>See [[PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule|Precise Release Schedule]] for detailed list ||
+||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> '''Brainstorming and finding assignees''' || '''End of Week 19''', UDS Q ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> '''Approving blueprints''' || '''End of Week 20''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> '''Finalizing blueprints and specifications''' || '''May 31''', FeatureDefinitionFreeze ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> '''▶ (Further discussion and) implementing''' || '''Ubuntu freezes''', Aug 23 and later ||
||<style="padding-top: 7px;" -2> ''Read more about [[Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Designing_a_release|the phases]] on our Strategy Document.'' ||
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-Read more about [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Phases|the phases]].

=== Changes on default applications ===
''Items in this group (usually) need comprehensive '''''application comparisons'''''. An assignee for each "group"/type of application should take up the task, ideally more than one to make it less subjective/one-sided.'' All proposed applications can be found in [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/ProposedApplications]]; please add one here only if that group/application has an assignee.

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||<tablestyle="border: 1px solid #888;"> '''Application group''' || '''Proposed (Current)''' || '''Assignee''' || '''Importance''' || '''Links''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> --(Media Player (Audio))-- || Any (gmusicbrowser) || Grid''''''Cube || Low * || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-default-media-player|Blueprint]], [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Precise/DefaultMediaPlayer|Specification]] ||


=== New features ===
Note that any features with no assignee will not be driven, and most probably won't make it to the Precise Pangolin release.
+=== New features, major bugs, improvements to community ===
Note that any items with no assignee will not be driven, and most probably won't make it to the release.
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-||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Release the new website || Pasi Lallinaho, Elizabeth Krumbach || Essential || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-release-website|Blueprint]], [[Xubuntu/Website/Sprint|Sprint 19 Nov]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> New Plymouth theme || madnick || High || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-new-plymouth-theme|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> New generic greeter engine for lightdm || madnick || High || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-lightdm-greeter-engine|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> New lightdm theme || madnick || High || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-new-lightdm-theme|Blueprint]], [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Precise/NewLightdmTheme|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Create a new wallpaper || Pasi Lallinaho || Medium || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-new-wallpaper|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Create a GUI for managing menu || Lauri Paatelainen || Medium || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-menu-managing|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Settings GUI for lightdm (under Settings Manager) || madnick || Medium || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-lightdm-settings-gui|Blueprint]], [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Precise/SettingsGUIforLightdm|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Ubiquity "Application sets" || Pasi Lallinaho, Stéphane Graber, US developers || Low * || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-ubiquity-application-sets|Blueprint]], [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Precise/UbiquityApplicationSets|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Port Bluebird to GTK3 || Simon Steinbeiß || Low || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-bluebird-gtk3-port|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Miscellaneous appearance improvements || Pasi Lallinaho || Low || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-appearance-improvements|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Add [[http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/|kbdleds]] to the repositories  || Lionel Le Folgoc, Grid''''''Cube || Low || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-kbdleds-in-repository|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> --(New Icon theme)-- || || Postponed || ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> --(Port Albatross to GTK3)-- || || Postponed || ||
+||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Review the Strategy Document || Pasi Lallinaho, community || Essential || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-review-strategy-document|Blueprint]]''' <<BR>> [[Xubuntu/StrategyDocument|Old Strategy Document]] <<BR>> [[http://strategydoc.knome.fi/|New Strategy Document (reviewing)]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Review the QA procedures || Janne Jokitalo, Pasi Lallinaho || Essential || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-qa-procedures|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Include Xfce 4.10 || Lionel Le Folgoc, Micah Gersten || Essential || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-xfce-410|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Refresh the offline documentation || Pasi Lallinaho, community || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-refresh-offline-documentation|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> New Plymouth theme || madnick || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-new-plymouth|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> New LightDM theme || madnick || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-new-lightdm|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Analyze and optimize boot times || Janne Jokitalo, Pasi Lallinaho, testers || High || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-optimize-boot|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Website improvements || Pasi Lallinaho, Elizabeth Krumbach || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-website-improvements|Blueprint]]''', [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/WebsiteImprovements|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Review terminal theme || Simon Steinbeiß, Pasi Lallinaho || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-terminal-theme|Blueprint]]''', [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/TerminalThemeReview|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Albatross theme facelift || Simon Steinbeiß, Pasi Lallinaho || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-albatross-facelift|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Improve Bluebird theme || Simon Steinbeiß, Markus Klinga || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-improve-bluebird|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Rethink elementary-xfce icons concept || Simon Steinbeiß || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-elementary-xfce|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Explore possibilities of desktop search || Sean Davis, Simon Steinbeiß || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-desktop-search|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Add more launchers to Settings manager || Unit193, community || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-settings-manager-launchers|Blueprint]]''', [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/SettingsManagerApps|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Xubuntu marketing initiatives || Elizabeth Krumbach, community || Medium || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-marketing|Blueprint]]''', [[Xubuntu/Marketing|Marketing wikipage]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Implement Keyboard-Shortcuts overlay/window || Sean Davis, Simon Steinbeiß || Low || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-shortcuts-overlay|Blueprint]]''', [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/KeyboardShortcutsOverlay|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Ubiquity application sets || Janne Jokitalo || Low || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-application-sets|Blueprint]]''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;" -3> Umbrella blueprint for appearance blueprints || '''[[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-appearance|Blueprint]]''', [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/DefaultPanelLayout|Panel layout spec]] ||
||<style="padding: 0.8em;" -4>'''Ideas that are postponed for now''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Ship [[http://apt-offline.alioth.debian.org/|apt-offline]] by default || - || - || [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/AptOffline|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Add optimum partitioning option to install options || - || - || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Add DVD support to Xubuntu restricted extras || - || - || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> New Panel Plug in: Disk access monitor || - || - || - ||
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||<tablestyle="border: 1px solid #888;"> '''Item''' || '''Assignee''' || '''Importance''' || '''Links''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Fix Greybird (GTK3) issues || Simon Steinbeiß || Essential || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-greybird-fixes|Blueprint]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Rethink shortcut keys || Sysi, community || Low * || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-default-shortcuts|Blueprint]], [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Precise/DefaultShortcutKeys|Specification]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Clean themes (GTK, xfwm, wallpapers) list || Pasi Lallinaho || Low * || [[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-p-xubuntu-cleanthemes|Blueprint]], [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Precise/CleanThemes|Specification]] ||
+=== Changes on default applications ===
''Items in this group (usually) need comprehensive '''''application comparisons'''''. An assignee for each "group"/type of application should take up the task, ideally more than one to make it less subjective/one-sided.''

/* Please use a #ededed and #fafafa rowstyles alternately so readability stays. */
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||<tablestyle="border: 1px solid #888;"> '''Application group''' || '''Proposed (Current)''' || '''Assignee''' || '''Importance''' || '''Links''' ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Package manager || Lubuntu Software Center? (USC, Synaptic) || Pasi Lallinaho, Simon Steinbeiß || High || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Monitor management|| Improve xfce4-display-dialog || GridCube || Medium || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Media player || Listen, DeadBeef? (gmusicbrowser) || GridCube|| Medium || [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/DefaultMediaPlayer|Specifications]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Backup App || Deja Dup, ? (-) || - || Medium || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Video player || Improve Parole || - || Low || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Webcam Application || Cheese? || GridCube || Low || [[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/WebcamApplication|Specifications]] ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Menu manager || MenuLibre, LXMenueditor, (Alacarte) || - || Low || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #ededed;"> Terminal || Sakura || - || Low || - ||
||<rowstyle="background-color: #fafafa;"> Image editor || ? (GIMP) || - || Low || - ||

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Quantal

Roadmap for Quantal Quetzal

Phases of development

New features, major bugs, improvements to community

Changes on default applications