[ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

[Thomas Pfundt]

Hi everyone, 
 
regarding the get-together: I've had great experiences in past projects with regular, weekly meetings to discuss progress, issues, ask questions or even just talk a little off-topic, if IRC allows for this. 
 
I'll just suggest now that we schedule a meeting every Sunday at 19:00 UTC. 
(21:00 CEST in Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Madrid; 20:00 BST in London; 13:00 EDT in New York, Toronto; 10:00 PDT in Los Angeles, Vancouver.) 
 
Is there someone here for whom this wouldn't work under any circumstances because of work, family business or for any other reason? Of course, there will be occasions on which each of us won't be able to attend at all or join in via mobile, but would this be feasible, in general? Or does someone have a better suggestion? 
 
If everyone's fine with this, I'd like to meet up starting this sunday (8th April). I'll try to compose a list of topics and keep track of what's going on to get the ball rolling. 
 
 
On April 3, 2018 6:32 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote: 
> Ubuntu Mate is pretty good these days. [...] However, there is 
> one good reason to stay with Xfce4, as long as it shouldn't become 
> buggy, bloated or should suffer seriously from anything else. 
>  
> [...] Users who decided to install Ubuntu Studio are used to Xfce4, 
> migrating to another desktop environment does break their workflow 
> and it would be tricky to run do-release-upgrade. 
 
I've used Unity, KDE, Xfce, LXDE and the "new" GNOME in their respective Ubuntu environments in the past and while I got to know Ubuntu Studio with Xfce and I personally enjoy it the most, aesthetically, I have to say that it does suffer from certain issues. 
 
More than once have people opened threads on the mailing lists asking for help, because their whisker-menu categories and entries disappeared (happened to me multiple times as well) and Thunar is also not entirely stable when renaming/moving files. 
 
Then, there's the issue of screen tearing by default. Of course, this can be easily fixed by installing a compositor with Vsync, but for someone new, that can be quite a stretch, especially if they aren't even able to identify the cause of the problem. 
 
I've never used MATE or GNOME 2, but I've just had a look at the Ubuntu MATE desktop and it seems quite customisable and relatively similar to Xfce in many ways, so if that would solve some issues, maybe it's worth a thought. To circumvent a couple of problems, I've installed Nautilus/dconf-tools, the Gnome Terminal, gedit and Compiz anyway at this point, so I kind of run a bastardised stock Xfce/Gnome environment as is, but that doesn't have to work out for everyone, of course.