Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

[Jelle de Jong]

I will volunteer for testing Feisty. If you want something tested you
can contact me.

Cody Somerville wrote:
> Lets take a walk through
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Edgy/Ideas and see what
> we can take from there and implement in Feisty:
> 
>     New printer configuration (either adding this to xfprint or making
>     gnome-cups-manager gtk-only) 
> 
> 
> Implemented in Edgy.
> 
>       Browse Windows network (Thunar)
> 
> 
> We might not be able to get something integrated with Thunar for Feisty
> but we could include a stand-alone samba network browser. I hear there
> is a nice python based one.
> 
>     Trash support (Thunar)
> 
> 
> Implemented in Edgy.
> 
>     Floppy support (Thunar) 
> 
> 
> I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to hack this into Thunar. <g>
> 
>     sort out Audio/Video player situation (gxine looks better that
>     xfmedia at this point) (I would suggest seperate clients for audio
>     and video: something like Listen or Exaile for audio, and gxine/xine
>     for video)
> 
> 
> Should we re-evaluate this again?
> 
>     Update-notifier to be included by default.
> 
> 
> I haven't looked. Did this make it into Edgy? If not, we could fix the
> xfce notification daemon (it has the gnome-deps removed) and update the
> update-notifier to make use of it. Shouldn't be too hard.
> 
>     All of Desktop UI improvements
> 
> 
> I don't think we have the man power to tackle this right now. Hopefully
> they'll occur upstream.
> 
>     Menubar like in Gnome (Apps/Places/System) instead of simple menu
>     (Applications)
> 
> 
> This, however, is something we could easily do and an idea that I like.
> 
>     All of Reducing duplication, reusing Ubuntu software
> 
>  
> Did you ever solve the CDBS issue? Any further efforts here?
> 
>     Import upstream svn into bzr in LP and work on that
> 
> 
> Do we plan to still do this?
> 
>     Xubuntu langpacks? Right now it's base langpacks + gnome langpacks
>     (evince, gnumeric) for full desktop translation
> 
> 
> Whats the status on this? :)
> 
>     Revisit app selection (i.e. sylpheed-claws vs t-bird vs seamonkey)
> 
> 
> Should we revisit this discussion for Feisty?
> 
> I'm really excited for Feisty. Are you? :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cody A.W. Somerville
>