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

[Dr. Stewart Thompson]

As I've said before I totally understand pulling the publishing tab and I'm 
speaking as someone who uses musical dots daily as a publisher via 
Musescore and Scribus. I had wondered about offering to help with the curation of different notation proves as this is obviously my professional area but as publishing is going I'm not sure you would need this?

I'm currently running vanilla Ubuntu on ly Toshiba but I'll likely return to Studio as it needs a refresh. I'm looking forward to trying it all out as after so much time doing. I thing due to Covid I've finally got some live sound coming up.

Keep up the good work. 

On 17 October 2021 10:56:56 BST, eylul <eylul at ubuntustudio.org> wrote:
>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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