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Weekly Summary

• natty-proposed now has Firefox 5 and new language packs; please help testing where you can. (pitti)

• Apport retracer should be working again for natty/lucid. (pitti)

• Code for http://status.ubuntu.com/ now got merged into lp:launchpad-work-items-tracker, will be announced officially soon. (pitti)

• Deprecated the usblp kernel module for USB printers and used libusb instead. CUPS upstream recommended this instead of accepting our patch for a hybrid (support for both usblp and libusb) USB backend. CUPS upstream accepted our patches for USB URI migration and for broken device ID support (USB-to-parallel adapters). Updated CUPS and foo2zjs packages for that (TillKamppeter).

• Investigations on firmware file upload into HP's cheapo laser printers (TillKamppeter).

• Created a report listing bugs that are affecting a good quantity of users, please review it at http://people.canonical.com/~pedro/desktop/ so i can customize the report for your specific area. (PedroVillavicencio)

• deja-dup got Ubuntu One support (mterry)

• http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenOffice-org-accepted-into-Apache-Incubator-1259664.html OpenOffice.org is now in the Apache Incubator

• LibreOffice 3.4.0 upstream is out, not yet at debian (they likely also need the fix for LP#759704)

• LibreOffice 3.3.3 release is around the corner

Partner update

Unity

• Unity 3D:
  • Compiz SRU finally out, fixing some nice things like the 1 px issue in
  • Other Unity/Places SRU confirmed and now in natty-updates.
  • New SRU for Unity/Nux coming this week
• Unity 2D:

  • Qt issue making unity 2D places crash finally tackled! (well, workarounded rather). Rationale available at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+bug/791213 and the Qt developer blogged about it: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/06/10/type-punning-and-strict-aliasing/

  • a11y accessibility on Qt and QML:

    • Got some git commit pointer in Qt to fix accessibility issue by TheMuso. Seems not having all commits so. Will discuss at the Qt contributor summit with the person in charge for a worklow with them

    • Same rationale for the QML a11y support (in a separate branch that will be published before end of week)

    • Updated an experimental plugin update for at-spi2. Tested and despite beeing crashy, I can hear Qt components in Orca! https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/experimental. Waiting for integrating the patch in Qt accessibility fixes before pushing that one in Oneiric.

• experimental support for indicator in Qt under work. New package ready, just need upstream discussion before Kubuntu guys accept the needed patch in Qt (will happen this week with the Qt contributor summit)

Software Center

• The Canonical UX team are user-testing mockups for a new Software Center design this week
  • They expect to complete wireframes next week and hand over the new design week of July 1
  • We will need to phase in new design features based on priority, schedule will be extremely tight to FF
• Software Center version 4.1.6 coming later this week, contains UI enhancements and bug fixes
• In progress: Enhanced Unity launcher integration

• Lots of testing of Chinese language issues in Software Center this week per the Qin spec at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-qin-ubuntu-china

  • mvo tracked down and fixed an important issue in apt that affected Software Center translations at first start, see LP: #794907

Kubuntu

X.org

• Mesa upload (and subsequent Xserver upload) blocked on llvm-2.9 MIR (Bug #790204)
  • Extended the dricore patch to also factor out a shared Gallium library; saves a couple of megabytes of CD space
• nvidia-current multiarch patch sent to Alberto Milone.

• Cairo now has the EGL/GL backend re-enabled; this reopens https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/725434, resulting in nvidia's libGL causing each process that links with cairo (ie: anything that links to GTK) dirty about an additional 5MiB of memory. We need to decide what to do about this.

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