[ubuntu-studio-devel] Thoughts for 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish"

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi everyone!


It's been a wild two years. We've done quite a bit to get to where we are now, and we only 
continue to grow both in popularity and in the team! Granted, it's mostly Len and myself 
on a day-to-day basis, but we seem to be getting more and more help, and this past go-
around with 21.10 that was in testing. I'm so glad to see so much participation!


As I look to 22.04 and the challenges that has taken place in the past, I've been 
considering a few thoughts, primarily having to do with our ISO size, which is coming 
close to exceeding the technical limits. In fact, we even had to cut some stuff from this 
past release.


With that, I'm going to look into things we can do to mitigate that going forward, and I'm 
starting with our default theming and wallpaper.


     *  Wallpaper can go back to JPG. I remember a couple years ago we went to PNG by 
default, but this is now hurting us. On this note, I'd like to hold a new wallpaper contest 
for this cycle.
     *  We should make a new default wallpaper. If Eylul doesn't see this, I'll reach out to her 
via Telegram to see if she'd like to take the reigns on this one
     *  We currently bring in another theme for our default theme: Materia with the Papirus 
icons. I've been playing around with rebasing onto KDE's default Breeze with a different 
color scheme and continuing with the Papirus icons. I like the results I'm seeing so far. The 
reason for the different color scheme is twofold: 
         1. Identity separate from Kubuntu
         2. The default Breeze colors are on the cool side and not good for photography or 
video production since they can fool the eye.
             *  Based on that, I have found a color scheme based on Adwaita (default GNOME 
colors) that is very neutral. I plan on incorporating that, and so far the results have been 
very nice.
             *  Rebasing on Breeze will also remove the need for Kvantum and that overhead, 
bringing us in-line with the default Plasma/Kwin theming engines.
             *  I plan on auditing our reverse dependencies for items we're still bringing-in that 
don't need to be there. It was discovered that we were still depending on an Xfce library, 
which we removed, and you will notice that the Elementary icons are still installed by 
default despite moving to Papirus over two years ago.


If any of you can think of some default-installed applications that we don't really need as 
their function is duplicated elsewhere, I'd love to know.


Also, we will be moving forward with removing "Publishing". For those worried about 
Musescore, that will not be removed as it's still part of the audio/music category/
metapackage.


Thanks, everyone! I think 22.04 will turn out to be a great LTS release.


-- 
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
Member - Ubuntu Community Council
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