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

[eylul]

Just wanted to say, yes I am still lurking here, and will start thinking 
on this. :)

Best

Eylul

On 17.10.2021 01:03, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
>
> 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.
>           o 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.
>           o Rebasing on Breeze will also remove the need for Kvantum
>             and that overhead, bringing us in-line with the default
>             Plasma/Kwin theming engines.
>           o 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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