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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the hard work Jorge. The menu is shaping up nicely.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jorge O. Castro <jorge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I plan on posting application menu updates to this list on a regular
> basis. Since we do releases on Thursday and package them up that day
> or Friday you're probably wondering why this mail is reaching you on a
> Monday. It took a bit to get the bits worked out so we were behind,
> but on Friday we got the releases into the Lucid PPA. Ken VanDine is
> now working with DX and the Desktop guys on getting this all into
> Maverick, so for the moment using the Unity Lucid PPA continues to be
> the best way to test the application menu. We hope to have it all
> squared away in Maverick by Alpha 2. Here's the highlights:
>
> Stuff that's new:
>
>  - Application switching should work now
>  - Redid the menu property bits, so apps like Shotwell should work
> now, this should fix a bunch of the "It doesn't work at all" problems,
> please check your apps and update the grid!
>  - Window switching via bamf: https://launchpad.net/bamf/
>  - Addition of debug tools, check under "Debug Tools" on the wiki
> page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu
>
> Stuff that's broken:
>
>  - Evolution still broken, bug on startup. Some bamf  bugs causing
> things to crash, should be better after this week.
>  - Menu ordering still broken, but should be better, if you've
> reported a bug on this for your app, please check!
>
> Future Stuff we plan to break
>
>  - We're asking Cody to make it so that when you're running the menu
> any app you launch just uses the app menu instead of making you launch
> them all from a terminal. This should help testing the app switching
> and make it not so annoying.
>
> This release works much better than what we had last week, so feel
> free to update the grid and check more applications!  Also, don't
> forget to tag the bugs with "app-menu", and those of you who are
> confirming people's bugs, just set the status to "Confirmed". The next
> release will be this Thursday, thanks!
>
> --
> Jorge Castro
> jorge (at) ubuntu.com
> External Project Developer Relations
> Canonical Ltd.
>
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