Desktop Weekly Summary

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey there,

So summer started but it didn't distract us to get some good work done ;-)

The usual IRC meeting happened on tuesday, you can read the full log on
http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-desktop/2015/ubuntu-desktop.2015-06-23-15.31.log.html

If you are not interested in the details here is a summary of the main
items of the week
- quite some bugs got fixed in the gtk-mir backend
- ibus got merged with debian & updated to the current version
- several library transitions were worked on for wily: e-d-s 3.16,
gstreamer 1.5, poppler 0.33, wps 0.4
- chromium 43.0.2357.130 is ready for upload and tests should work now
- experiment have been done to use libreoffice for the new touch
document viewer
- the work on the snappy personal image continues, goget-ubuntu-touch in
wily has no official support for personal, image can be build and boot
to a working greeter, some bugs got resolved, unity8 session start is
still not working though
- usual packages updates, merges, bugfixes, etc

That's it for this week

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher