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Re: Summary of the UDS

 

Thanks a lot, I edited with Glade the LXDM theme and needed some retouch
from two people to be useable! :D


El ds 06 de 11 de 2010 a les 17:04 +0800, en/na PCMan va escriure:

> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As promised, the summary of the UDS regarding Lubuntu development :
> >
> > == Nothing for the official endorsement for Lubuntu ==
> > I had some discussions about this, but nothing happened during this UDS.
> > There is still some work on-going, but nothing really new.
> >
> > == Unity by default on Ubuntu ==
> > The big move on Unity + Compiz should not have impact on us. Maybe we
> > will have more users because they don't like the GUI :)
> >
> > == Migration for GNOME3 ==
> > Ubuntu will prepare the migration for GNOME3. They will try to build
> > programs with GTK3, removing gconf and deprecated library. It's
> > important for us, because we use GTK, Glib and some GNOME components.
> >
> > GTK3
> > We need to decide if we move to GTK3 (need porting and testing) or stay
> > with GTK2 (but mix GTK2 and GTK3). It'll probably be possible for a
> > lubuntu-core session (I already created patches for some LXDE packages),
> > maybe a LXDE session. But I doubt the full Lubuntu session will be
> > GTK2-free :(
> 
> We can write some compatibility macros to ease the migration.
> For example, gtk+ 3 prohibit directly accessing data members of GTK+
> data structures.
> However, this is used frequently in gtk+ 2. We can write wrapper
> macros to make gtk+ code compiles under gtk+ 2.
> 
> > GSettings (indirectly)
> > There is also a migration for Gsettings, to remove gconf. There is also
> > less impact on us, but it could be needed if we want to get ride of
> > gconf.
> This gets rid of gconf, but introduces dconf instead.
> So anyway we need some *conf thing from gnome, but now it's partially
> bound to glib.
> > Cleaning old GNOME libraries
> > Like Ubuntu, we can start to remove some deprecated libraries :
> >  * python-gnome2 + libgnomeui : removed
> >  * libgnome2 + libbonobo : need only to be removed from
> > gnome-power-manager
> >  * libgconf + gconf : many depends (see GSettings)
> >  * libglade : many depends too.
> > == Netbook session ==
> > The neetbook session didn't have many improvements during the 10.10
> > cycle. When I see the development of the Ubuntu Netbook edition, I think
> > we can do the same. I mean, we can try some experimentations in this
> > session, to have feedbacks with less fear to break the interface. If
> > it's good, we can add them to the main session.
> >
> > == LightDM ==
> > I had a session on LightDM, the (probably) futur replacement of GDM in
> > Ubuntu. It's seems pretty nice, and considering the problems we have
> > with LXDM, it's something we will discuss :)
> 
> I have ported the GTK+ greeter used by lxdm to lightDM, and make it
> freely themeable.
> We can start porting old gdm2 themes to LightDM now.
> The theme format I use can be edited with Glade-3 in a WYSIWYG way.
> No more hand-written xml! :-)
> 
> > == Artwork Team ==
> > There will be some activities with the Artwork Team, we may have some
> > additionnal submissions for the artwork. The good thing : they
> > considered us like any official derivated :)
> >
> > == Using askubuntu.com with tag lubuntu ==
> > There is a new site for helping people named http://askubuntu.com/ . I
> > think it could be a good addition to the documentation and the help on
> > forums / IRC. If you do so, please use the tag lubuntu
> > (http://askubuntu.com/tags/lubuntu).
> >
> > And if you have any questions, feel free to ask :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien Lavergne
> >
> >
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