Just wanted to say, yes I am still lurking here, and will start thinking
on this. :)
Best
Eylul
On 17.10.2021 01:03, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
Hi everyone!
It's been a wild two years. We've done quite a bit to get to where we
are now, and we only continue to grow both in popularity and in the
team! Granted, it's mostly Len and myself on a day-to-day basis, but
we seem to be getting more and more help, and this past go-around with
21.10 that was in testing. I'm so glad to see so much participation!
As I look to 22.04 and the challenges that has taken place in the
past, I've been considering a few thoughts, primarily having to do
with our ISO size, which is coming close to exceeding the technical
limits. In fact, we even had to cut some stuff from this past release.
With that, I'm going to look into things we can do to mitigate that
going forward, and I'm starting with our default theming and wallpaper.
* Wallpaper can go back to JPG. I remember a couple years ago we
went to PNG by default, but this is now hurting us. On this note,
I'd like to hold a new wallpaper contest for this cycle.
* We should make a new default wallpaper. If Eylul doesn't see this,
I'll reach out to her via Telegram to see if she'd like to take
the reigns on this one
* We currently bring in another theme for our default theme: Materia
with the Papirus icons. I've been playing around with rebasing
onto KDE's default Breeze with a different color scheme and
continuing with the Papirus icons. I like the results I'm seeing
so far. The reason for the different color scheme is twofold:
1. Identity separate from Kubuntu
2. The default Breeze colors are on the cool side and not good
for photography or video production since they can fool the eye.
o Based on that, I have found a color scheme based on
Adwaita (default GNOME colors) that is very neutral. I
plan on incorporating that, and so far the results have
been very nice.
o Rebasing on Breeze will also remove the need for Kvantum
and that overhead, bringing us in-line with the default
Plasma/Kwin theming engines.
o I plan on auditing our reverse dependencies for items
we're still bringing-in that don't need to be there. It
was discovered that we were still depending on an Xfce
library, which we removed, and you will notice that the
Elementary icons are still installed by default despite
moving to Papirus over two years ago.
If any of you can think of some default-installed applications that we
don't really need as their function is duplicated elsewhere, I'd love
to know.
Also, we will be moving forward with removing "Publishing". For those
worried about Musescore, that will not be removed as it's still part
of the audio/music category/metapackage.
Thanks, everyone! I think 22.04 will turn out to be a great LTS release.
--
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
Member - Ubuntu Community Council
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