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[Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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   Unity8 ui
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      Right edge reviews iterated, ready to land
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      New scopes in silo and design-approved, waiting for a promotable Qt
      5.2 image
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      Preparation to switch to new icon theme - suru
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      Transition to Qt 5.2
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      Split greeter is coming together, getting in a preliminary silo today
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      Improvements in Notifications and the Greeter
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      Preparation to introduce autopkgtests (QML UI tests and autopilot
      integration tests)
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   Mir/unity-mir
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      promoted mir0.1.6 & mir 0.1.7
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      Delivered key bug fix for crashing on login for Unity8 desktop preview
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      Continued work toward providing cursor support for Unity8 desktop
      preview
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      Screen casting improvements added
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         encoder support, along with some more command line options
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         also some shell authorization capability (to arbitrate who is
         allowed to use)
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      Dove into our IPC to look at performance and delivered some savings
      (saved a few cpu% loading)
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      Changed our EventHub device enumeration to Udev
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      Added some reporting to use around HWC
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      Continued efforts into simplifying surface class hierarchy &
      discussing better mechanisms for reporting surface changes (e.g.
not there
      was a change, but some idea of what's changed)
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      Effort around building in a placement policy for window management
      (hitting lots of walls)
      - Also, looking into efforts to improve our compositor/gl render
      split (interfaces) which dovetails into our enabling Qt scenegraph work