Hey, Just wanted to add a word on what I've done so far
2. Discuss and spec out improvements to notifications. I coded that little daemon for sound notifications (those that were missing). It works, but I wanna improve it (making sure that it resists well to errors). It is apparently running on 2.8 MB ram (without swap - private dirty ram is 1.9 exactly) and seems to have no memory leaks apart from init/shutdown (i spotted a few lost bits in gstreamer's functions :/). It also needs to add a xfconf value that should soon be handled by xfce4-mixer (Jannis if you don't have time for it I think I can do it, just let me know ;) ). I don't think it's acceptable to let it use so much ram for what it does, so if Jannis is ok with this I'm gonna try to add the code to make it listen to key events for XF86Volume up/down and XF86Muted, and make it manage the volume changes directly. That'll avoid having another daemon also loading gstreamer vars in ram. Then, once it is fully coded, I think we can just put the notifications part into a debian patch and send the rest upstream. (Note that I don't know how to do that :p) There is progress on some of the spotted issues about notify-osd, especially fullscreen apps and notifications. Though, they wanna base some of notify-osd's behaviour on the fast-user-switch gnome applet, so I'll have to make sure it still works fine for us. I spotted two apps so far that were sending notifications a bad way : listen and thunar-volman. I filled a bug in both cases and proposed a patch (crappy one i must admit) for listen. If you use notify-osd and spot apps that send popup dialogs instead of notifications please let me know (or directly fill a bug about these apps that put actions in notifications without checking if the notify server allows them). I think that's all. Mark_t finished porting the indicator-applet to XFCE, I'm hoping to see him post on this list and let us know about his work, but I think we should go for that applet, too. A little word on : 4. Examine memory usage of default Xubuntu desktop. Compare w/ Debian.. I think we're more and more going into two contradictory directions. On a first time, we want low memory usage such as Debian+Xfce (which is more or less vanilla xfce), and we also want to add the Canonical/Gnome stuff that make life easier for the users (update-notifier, the hardware notifier, etc). I think we should let the user chose wether (s)he wants a very light session (nothing else than the necessary xfce stuff running by default, all the rest unchecked in autostart, and possibly notify-osd not started by default - it would start if an app needs it), or wether (s)he has ram and wants all the nasty stuff such as update-notifier, indicator-applet, etc, that make Xubuntu so much nicer. I know the ubiquity guys are against any addition to the installer, but I think we should do it. A way to do it would be to check for the user's RAM and chose for him what should be activated by default and what shouldn't, and let him override this option in the "advanced" tab. Everything would be installed but the user would have to chose on his own what he wants to be autostarted. Is this feasible ? As for : 5. Assist Xfce in developing release policy, procedures; release I think the best way we can help them and make our relationship with them stronger is to find them developers for the stuff they won't have the time to code/maintain right now (esp. goodies). And I mean stuff that'd go upstream, not xubuntu-specific stuff (such as what i'm doing now :p). For instance, indicator-applet could become an upstream goodie if Mark_t is willing to maintain it. If i manage to get my volume buttons watching daemon running, it could also go upstream (if it works decently :p). That'd help Xfce by letting their devs focus on what they work on and helping them to release faster and with more up-to-date stuff. This is especially true for the Xfce doc, too. I think we should really find contributors to help them write/translate it (*points at Slonkie, ochosi, knome, and self* : we can help write/translate it, and it'd be awesome both for xfce and xubuntu !). > Big thanks to everyone who participated at UDS either locally or remotely. > I'm already running Karmic and can say that things are coming along very > nicely. I must admit that I have a really good vibe about this release. I > think the next several months are going to be very exciting times for the > Xubuntu project; I hope everyone is able to get in on the fun. Cheers ! A shame you didn't come at that ending party though :) -- Steve Dodier OpenPGP : 1B6B1670 IRC : SiDi on irc.freenode.net Jabber : s...@im.apinc.org steve.dod...@gmail.com https://launchpad.net/~sidi -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
