Phew! It's been a crazy ride to release Unity 5.2 once ubuntu precise released its alpha 2, but we finally get there! Thanks a lot for all the community participation, we actually got 27 testers answering to Nick's call for testing. Those were high quality contributions and enabled us to get closer to the unity release. So, what's new since 5.0? Well, a lot! :) More precisely, we got multimonitor support with screen edge detection, "
Just finished some hacking for implementing some unity configuration options that are blessed by the design team, as shown in this official specification. It contains as well other ui tweaks. You can notice in particular the "Restore defaults" options that work on each tabs and restore every page's defaults. Those options are impacting both unity and unity-2d. This gave particular challenges as their features don't align (for instance, we don't show the "
Flying back from Budapest, I hacked on a long-time awaited design whishlist: "Nautilus quicklist does not contain the locations previously found under the 'Places' menu.". This is about getting the Unity quicklist for the nautilus launcher icon to display the list of the user's bookmark. It was unexpecdictly more "fun" that what I thought it would be. Indeed, there is already one dynamic quicklist, appearing when you are making a copy operation which can take some time (when the copy dialog appears), giving the possibility to "
Now that the Canonical rally is ending, I'm happy to announce that we released and uploaded Unity 5.0 to precise! This is by far the most exciting and the best Unity released we ever had, and I'm happy that we've be able to accomplish all of this thanks to the community and the excellent developer team. We received a lot of testing and got more than 50 test results from my previous call for testing.
The Canonical ubuntu platform and product strategy teams are gathering in Budapest this week to tackle as much work as possible on precise pangolin. Despite the promise of snow and cheap beers, we are working hard on getting Unity 5.0 out of the door. One of the goal of this release is to increase quality, precision, no regression on the work we push to the unstable version of ubuntu. The desktop experience team made automated and manual tests for that and we can already see the first benefits from it.
L'Ubuntu Developer Summit commence à Orlando, Floride, juste à l'instant. Même si cela fait déjà une semaine que je suis sur place (et malheureusement, la Floride n'est plus la même que l'année dernière[1] : pluie, brouillard, etc. Par conséquent, une raison de plus de travailler encore plus dur ! Comment cela fonctionne ? Je vous invite à relire le post que j'avais écrit il y a peu sur comment participer à l'UDS, car participer, même depuis votre maison, est totalement possible.
A little bit of retrospective OneConf is a pet project I'm trying to push since UDS Barcelona. The full idea is originally described on this wiki page: OneConf is a mechanism for recording software information in Ubuntu One, and synchronizing with other computers as needed. In Maverick, the list of installed software is stored. This may eventually expand to include some application settings and application state. Other tools like Stipple can provide more advanced settings/control.
Accessibility is one of the core value of Ubuntu. When we announced that Unity 2D will be the fallback if you have no required hardware or driver for unity 3D, one of the compulsory request for that is that Unity 2D should be accessible. Even if one of the goal for the cycle is to make Unity fully accessible[1] we should still consider people needed accessibility and not filling the requirements for it.
Beaucoup de personnes semblent se demander où trouver l'information sur ce qu'il passe sur la version de développement (actuellement oneiric ocelot, qui deviendra la 11.10 en octobre prochain). Cependant, c'est assez simple et Canonical ainsi que la communauté dépense énormément d'énergie[1] pour que tout le développement soit le plus transparent possible. Planification Comme indiqué dans mon post précédent, toutes les décisions sur une version de développement sont prises à l'UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit), conférences et discussions ouvertes à tous et gratuitement.
Demain débutera l'UDS Oneiric. Pour rappel l'UDS[1] est le lieu de rendez-vous de toute la communauté afin de discuter, planifier, décider quelles nouvelles fonctionnalités et quelles décisions seront prises pour le prochain cycle de développement d'ubuntu. Dans ce cas, Ubuntu Oneirc Ocelot (qui sera la 11.10). Pour cette édition, nous sommes tous à Budapest, Hongrie afin de travailler dur, discuter, mais évidemment ne pas délaisser la partie festive de l'évènement (oui, la bière coule à flot tous les soirs).