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Announcing session-migration now in ubuntu

Just fresh hot of the press, session-migration is now available in quantal. This small tool is trying to solve a problem we encountered for a long time as a distributor, but had to postpone it way too long because of other priorities. :) It basically enables packagers and maintainers to migrate in user session data. Indeed, when you upgrade a package, the packaging tools are running under root permissions, and only hackish solutions was used in the past to enable us to change some parts of your user configuration[1], like adding the FUSA applet, adding new compiz plugins on the fly… There are tons of example when a distribution needs to migrate some user data (logged or not when the upgrade is proceeding) without patching heavily the upstream project to add a migration support there.

Added rhythmbox radio support to unity music lens

Just got it merged (and will be freshly available in Unity 6.0 coming soon in quantal)! I spent few hours last week to add rhythmbox radios (and writing unit tests) for the music lens. It's been a long time I didn't write some serious vala (I guess last time was for unity's Alt+F2). I confirm it's still not my favorite langage ;) Coming back to the radios, they will now show as the last row (after tracks, albums and eventually online purchase ones), and they respect (if the metadata are provided in rhythmbox) to every usual music lens filters.

Android ICS on wetab (exopc slate)!

Spend few hours installing Android ICS (Cyanogenmod built for x86) on my exopc tablet and playing with it. I've never been impressed by Meego installed on it as a developer preview, performance and feature-wise. I've found yesterday evening those instructions and links about a corvusmod rebuild of cynagenmod and I gave it a try! Of course, as this is not an arm device but x86 one, not a lot of applications are working out of the box, but overall, the UI is totally functional and browsing the web is a delightful experience.

Cours python sur Ubuntu, débutant en programmation en ligne

Bonjour à tous, je passe le message que Rick Spencer (un américain perdu en France depuis presque un an, responsable d'ubuntu engineering chez Canonical) veut lancer quelques sessions interactives[1] en français pour apprendre les bases de la programmation, en python. Python est un langage très accessible et excellent pour débuter dans ce domaine. Il permet aussi bien de créer de petits scripts que de vraies grandes applications (la plupart des applications spécifiques à ubuntu comme le software-center, update-manager, jockey, ubuntu one sont écrits dans ce language!

New, shiny, Unity 5.6 released!

Phew! it's been a long road to release the next unity, but I'm more than happy to finally announce therelease of 5.6. Unity components (dee, libunity, bamf, lenses, nux) and unity itself, plus some compiz snapshots (post 0.9.7.0) are part of this release. The packages are currently building on the official builders and should be soon available to you. No particular new feature apart from better ibus support are part of it, plus a tons of bug fixes and some miscelleanous improvements: - Daniel van Vungt landed a patch in compiz that enhances its performance for more than 51%!

Some unity configuration in gnome-control-center.

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 "