Ubuntu Dev Summit Lays Out Plans For Hardy Heron 261
Opurt writes "On the first day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Boston this week, a roundtable session focused on the vision for the upcoming Hardy Heron Ubuntu release. Unlike Gutsy Gibbon, which brought a handful of experimental features along with some new functionality, the focus with Heron will be on robustness as it will be supported on the desktop for 3 years. 'The Compiz window manager, which adds sophisticated visual effects to the Ubuntu user interface, will be a big target for usability improvements. Keyboard bindings and session management were noted as two areas where Compiz still needs some work.' PolicyKit and Tracker will also be significantly tweaked, while Heron is also likely to see a complete visual refresh."
Someone please tag this ... (Score:4, Funny)
"hairy hardon"
Re:Ubuntu To Do List (Score:3, Funny)
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Don't whether that's a good idea.
But imagine the possibilities that such an exe-file would have as a spam-email attachement: "Mark Shuttlewort wants you to click on this link." or "Bigger hard drive, better performance! Click below!"
Re:visual refresh (Score:3, Funny)
Plans for Heron (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Ubuntu To Do List (Score:3, Funny)
* switch binaries to PE executables with
* change directory delimiter from / to \
* identify partitions with a single-letter name followed by a colon, before the file path
* change "home" to "Documents and Settings"
* move applications to "Program Files" folder
* replace symlinks with "shortcuts" with a
* ignore bugs
</sarcasm>
Are they planning to fix the most appaling issue? (Score:3, Funny)
You know, after using Kubuntu for quite a long time and recently having played with PCLinuxOS I think I understand now why it has moved to #1 at Distrowatch. It rightly deserves the spot.
Re:more details (Score:2, Funny)
-We're still going to make grub HIGHLY RECOMMENDED in the install process. I mean, obviously, it's stupid to install such a flaky bootloader that can't handle large hard drives when you don't need to, but why bother newcomers with a warning about the nasty nasty risk of locking users out of their computer? Changing this would be tantamout to admitting UbuntuDupe was right, and we can't have that. Too painful to admit error.
-Ditto for advising the user to have a reliable boot disk, like a Windows release, when they install grub. Obviously, the Ubuntu install CD is insufficient as a "reliable boot disk", but saying otherwise would -- you guessed it -- hurt our feelings.
-Continue to promote as "open access, usable by all". By "all", of course, we mean nerds who have installed Linux on six different people's PCs. Remember -- it's just a slogan, not something we actually believe in.
-Not budget any money for mass market advertising or in-store promotions. After all, only evil people affiliate with big box retailers. And do you really want our user base to include people who SHOP there? Yuck.
-Add a bunch of little widgets that only nerds who brag about their configuration will like.
-Have more names like "Hairy Hardon". See, too many corporate users are taking Ubuntu seriously. We need to remind people of our "fun" side. We definitely don't want to see the day when someone starts making those "get a mac" ads about Ubuntu!
-Take over the desktop market in '08!!!!
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If you give me a million euro's I promise I won't log on to Slashdot again. Please?
Re:Maybe it's time Ubuntu got a icon (Score:3, Funny)