Unity8, Mir & LXC for Xapps update July 17, 2015

[Kevin Gunn]

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   Latest in Unity8 ui
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      fixes for shell rotation lockscreen & blurry screen shot in spread
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      working on unity8 cpu consumption issue related to keyboard focus
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      still working launcher parity, stuck in review cycle for the week,
      but should land soon
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      Worked through window mode bugs associated with silo 0
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      inline media playback integration w media hub & social media features
      are queuing up
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      Spent time with design team on some ui adds for windowed mode unity8
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   Latest in Mir
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      last minute fix for u-s-c display blanking
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      trying to land mir 0.14, stuck in proposed now due to some flaky tests
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      progress on raw input event to unblock unity8
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      Started Vulkan evaluation
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      Proposal doc created for moving GL out of core Mir
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      Buffer semantics work ongoing
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      Lag minimization work ongoing
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      Enabled thread sanitizer in CI
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   LXC for xapps
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      working on installing packages (by name), searching will be added
      later (and will take a while)
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      application discovery scope work kicked off
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      application launch work in progress
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      built libertine on nexus4, for running container ran into some tools
      issues that are being addressed by foundation team
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