Re: Remove Python2 for 18.04?

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Not sure if any of this gnome language stuff is going to cause us issue 
like it has in the past. re trusty LTS bug(s)


Never really sure about any gnome statements that it ' only affects us' 
things anymore, consequently forwarding to us.


starting to think the same about mainbuntu - don't believe anything 
deliberate, but fairly sure they'd not check either.


Kev



On 27/10/17 22:49, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:

On 2017-10-27 21:22, Bryan Quigley wrote:


* ibus-sunpinyin

Was added 9/2017 [2] as part of moving from fcitx.


Right. Choosing ibus-sunpinyin was not preceded by any deeper 
considerations. It was the preferred input method last time Ubuntu's 
default IM framework for Simplified Chinese was IBus, and has been 
pulled by language-selector (pkg_depends) after that for Ubuntu GNOME.



This package hasn't been updated since 2013.  Previously we've added
it to the desktop session and then removed for ibus-pinyin for size
(and in this case it seems better maintained).


GNOME seems to default to ibus-libpinyin:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/tree/libgnome-desktop/default-input-sources.h 



That would speak for replacing ibus-sunpinyin with ibus-libpinyin on 
both the live CD and language-selector. But we should probably try to 
get opinions from some Chinese users before making this change.





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Re: Ubiquity Proposal - Add "minimal" setup with kernel parameter

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If this new minimal is a good idea - perhaps it would be better not to 
need GNOME Initial Setup - otherwise there's going to be 'some ubiquity 
version' which works for 1 flavour?




On 11/07/17 16:58, Carl Richell wrote:
Timezone is taken care of by GNOME Initial Setup. We'd like to remove 
the duplication.


On Tue, Jul 11, 2017, at 09:54 AM, Aaron Honeycutt wrote:


I'm curious on why you want to remove timezone selection. All the 
other changes sound great as I would like a better partitioning setup 
for encrypted machines as I feel the current one is not the best (not 
sure if my issues are just with our KDE/Qt one or not).



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Re: Weekly newsletter 19th May 2017

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Hi Will - some comments/questions inline


On 19/05/17 13:06, Will Cooke wrote:

...
= QA =
Added upgrade tests from Zesty to Artful for Ubuntu and flavours.  
Working on making all these tests pass now so that everyone will have 
a solid and reliable upgrade path.
Does this refer to what was previously at 
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/376/builds/148044/testcases 
for instance?


I assume this also is part of the irc discussion on 20th?
Work is being done on the installer tests.  This will extend the 
current installer tests to check that not only has the install 
completed successfully but that all desktop environment is working as 
expected, this had previously been covered with manual tests.

Do flavours carry on the discussion here?

Or are you talking about just Ubuntu - while I'd love for some 
autotesting of at least one flavour's iso - I wouldn't be partaking of 
any breath holding competitions - just want some clarification ;)


If you are talking about flavours too - I wonder if this is one of those 
bite too much scenarios?


That said some testing on lightdm for those of us using it would be 
welcome - Robert (Ancell) will know what I mean there.


kind regards

Kev


= Package Updates =
 * GStreamer is now at 1.12 final in 17.10.
 * Chromium: stable 58.0.3029.110, beta 59.0.3071.47, dev 60.0.3095.5
 * LibreOffice 5.3.3 is being tested.
 * CUPS-filters: 1.14.0
 * Snapd-glib: 1.12

= Snaps =
More GNOME applications are being packaged as Snaps. There is still 
some work to do to get them fully confined and fully integrated into 
the desktop.  We’re working on adding Snap support to Gtk’s Portals to 
allow desktop Snaps to access resources outside their sandbox.

We will start tracking the Snaps here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/GNOME/Snaps

= In the news =
Interview with Ken VanDine on the GNOME Desktop in Ubuntu: 
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/05/ubuntu-switch-to-gnome-questions-answered


There's also a survey running to get feedback on some extensions which 
could be shipped with Ubuntu Desktop: 
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/05/ubuntu-desktop-gnome-extensions-survey-1710


This was picked up by the Linux Unplugged podcast as their headline 
story: 
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/114701/that-new-user-smell-lup-197/



Cheers, Will





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Re: GNOME Software in 16.04 LTS

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On 15/01/16 08:16, Robert Ancell wrote:

Hi all,

As you may be aware, we're currently looking at switching from Ubuntu 
Software Center to GNOME Software for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS [1].


If you're interested in playing around / helping out:
- I've set up a ppa:ubuntu-desktop/gnome-software [2] for which 
currently holds PackageKit 1.0 and GNOME Software with some patches to 
support the Ubuntu review server. Installing this will boot out 
software-center / aptdaemon.
- We're blocked from pushing this directly to the Xenial archive [3] - 
but we hope to have some progress on that soon.
- The GNOME software work is being done upstream in GNOME git. It 
should be upstreamable.

- Please file bugs against the gnome-software package [4]
- I'm still working on the Ubuntu One support for posting reviews - 
ideally this would use libaccounts but that doesn't seem to be working 
in desktop Ubuntu anymore. Any help here would be appreciated. Plan B 
is to put the account signup UI in GNOME Software (not too hard, but 
would be nicer to use the proper services).

- I've tagged some bugs on things that need working on [5].
- The appstream data is being worked on - I'll let Iain Lane update 
about that.


Have fun!
--Robert

[1] 
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/11/the-ubuntu-software-centre-is-being-replace-in-16-04-lts
[2] 
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-software 


[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bug/1470655
[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+filebug
[5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.tag=gnome-software-ubuntu





Hi, thanks Robert.

This took out system-config-printer here in addition to what you 
expected (Xubuntu)


regards


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