July 2010
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Quicklists.
We didn’t ship Tomboy in 10.04 with support for Application Indicators because the experience wasn’t quite there. We lost things like the ability to pin notes, etc. The Rhythmbox and Banshee indicators were the same way, which is why we’re going to be using the Sound Menu.
Now we allow people to apply the same great technology (thanks KDE!) on the application’s icon in the...
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"Blog about what you're doing"
People have been doing awesome work lately:
Cody Russell and Neil Patel have been rocking Unity.
Paul Hummer and Aaron Bentley have been doing amazing work fixing tons of bugs so that we can offer people an easy way to offer daily builds.
Happiness is seeing the LoCo council working with individual teams through reapproval and the level of detailed work going on there.
Three examples.
In the...
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More cleansweep.
Here’s the status for this week, as we continue to grind through patches from contributors. 2 patches that need more work, 12 forwaded upstream, 2 to Debian, and one patch accepted (and one rejected) by an upstream.
Wanna help? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OperationCleansweep
Total bugs with patches: 2263 (0) Reviewed patches: 347 (+16)
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Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 88...
Application Menu Status for 15 July
Hi everyone,
Ted and Cody have been busy this week with non-appmenu related business, so the team has decided to skip a release this week since there hasn’t been much work done on the menu. The team is aware of the major issues, like “some apps are slow to draw the menu” like Nautilus, the Epiphany “I think I want to draw the menu but not really” bookmark bug, and...
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Web apps, interact with me!
I love web apps. So I wanted to see how Chromium’s latest support for web apps is like. After all, they’re going to have an “app store” of web apps. Here’s what I saw:
I hate to be a downer, but a pinned tab with an icon on it and removing the browser chrome doesn’t make it an “application”, if I wanted that I’d browse in full screen all...
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Patches and Bugs with Upstreams Extravaganza
Tomorrow is going to be a great day for Developer Week. Starting at 1600 UTC David and Nigel will be going over our continuing effort to get patches reviewed and submitted to upstream projects as part of Operation Cleansweep.
After you’ve learned how to review patches, Pedro’s session right after is how to forward those patches (and bug workflow) upstream.
Then, at 1800UTC you can...
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Ubuntu Stack Exchange Proposal
The Ubuntu Stack Exchange is an idea to have an Ubuntu-specific exchange. If you’re not familiar with how these sites work then look at Stack Overflow, which is probably the most popular, and apparently also popular with programmers.
Before the site gets approved we need people to commit to using it (because it wouldn’t make sense if people didn’t use it!). Click here if...
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Application Menu Status for 7 July
Hi everyone,
Another week, another release of the new menu for UNE. This week indicator-appmenu did not have any releases, as the bugs reported have been in appmenu-gtk. Cody Russell has released 0.1.1 of appmenu-gtk, which is in Maverick and currently building for the Lucid PPA. Here are the highlights:
- Bullets should now appear as bullets instead of checkmarks - Fix errors in GIMP
Full...
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Papercutter Profile: Marcus Carlson
Getting patches upstream and fixes out to users continues to be an area that we’re continuing to focus on. (See Operation Cleansweep) However there are plenty of people out there rocking things whom you might have never heard of doing the right thing day in and day out. Like Marcus Carlson:
Marcus has been working on the 100 Papercuts project on a piece of software called Nautilus, which...
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On roads, ways, and packaging.
Matt posted his thoughts on how the model of packaging software in OSS can change to adapt to new user needs. LWN also picked this up. Some of the comments are heading down into details, so I thought I would explain from a more general perspective on how I see the packaging landscape instead of talking about tools. I don’t think it’s about tools, it’s about the mindset.
To me...
Application Menu status update for 2 July
The march of regular releases continues with yet another indicator-appmenu and appmenu-gtk release, as seen in Maverick and the Lucid PPA.
Overall:
We’re now on by default for UNE in Maverick. (Thanks didrocks and seb128!)
Adding a new utility to make a mock application
After you use the dump tool you can now use mockjsonapp to create a test app with the dump data.
This makes it much...
