[Desktop] Release status 2012-03-02

[Martin Pitt]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * Released new Unity Greeter with redesigned session chooser.
 * Built fresh language packs for Ubuntu 12.04 beta-1.
 * Packaged most of GNOME 3.3.90.
 * Archive reports now treat armhf as primary supported architecture, and armel as port.
 * Further work on fixing sound init problems for particular sound hardware, particularly the hardware used in VMWare guests.

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams? ==

* Unity 5.6/new compiz, see DX report.

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

None.

== Release targetted bugs being worked on/monitored ==

under investigation:
 * Bug:872701 ''[Keyboard layout doesn't change in screensaver lock dialog]'': No progress this week.
 * Bug:918791 ''qemu-kvm dies when using vmvga driver and unity in the guest'': New from this week, not investigated yet.

triaged/in progress:
 * Bug:868400 ''[Synaptics touchpad stops working - two syndaemon instances running]'': No progress this week

== Release Notes ==
New since last report:

 * Remmina with FreeRDP is the new standard remote desktop client, replacing Vinagre and rdesktop.

(This actually has changed a while ago, but we forgot to add it to the
release notes).

Complete report at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/ReleaseStatus#relnotes

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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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