Ubuntustudio Natty GlobalJam tests

[Ronan Jouchet]

Hi Ubuntustudio-devel, hi Alessio,

I've been doing some tests with today's Studio iso, here are my findings:
1. *Installing from usb failed*: after pressing Enter to install I just have
a black screen. I may have borked the setup of my usb source key (though it
usually works with usb-creator-gtk) and will try again. As a result I just
installed Ubuntu vanilla, and installed ubuntustudio-desktop and
ubuntustudio-audio* and added my user to the audio group. Went fine.
2. *Network-manager works fine* (except the fact that the icon is shown
incorrectly when used in the classic Notification area, but it's known and
Mathieu Trudel says it's being fixed)
3. *JACK starts great* then, and *latencies are as usual* with -generic
4. *Installing abogani's lowlatency failed* because of missing headers :-/ ;
here is what I have:
*    sudo apt-get install linux-lowlatency linux-headers-lowlatency
linux-headers-2.6.38-8-lowlatency
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    linux-headers-2.6.38-8-lowlatency : Depends: linux-headers-2.6.38-8 but
it is not installable*
  Alessio, could you update your ppa?
5. The *desktop feels weird*: previously Studio stuck with gnome2,
traditional applets and all, and it was ok. Here we have a Natty that looks
like a mix of new indicator/ubuntu elements and old gnome2 stuff. I don't
know, it's kinda Frankenstein-ish, doesn't feel coherent and doesn't give
you the best of both worlds, quite the contrary. Maybe UI reconsiderations
should be planned for Oneiric? Staying to full classic GNOME (without global
menu, without indicator applets), or Unity 2D if it is in an acceptable
state.

Good day,

-- Ronan
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