Ubuntu Dev Summit Lays Out Plans For Hardy Heron

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."

Comments

Someone please tag this ...

[Anonymous Coward]

"hairy hardon"

Re:Ubuntu To Do List

[Constantine XVI]

You know, you could just buy OSX

Re:more details

[zeromorph]

Installing Ubuntu from within Windows
ubuntu-install.exe... nuff said... might not make it though... it is listed as 'dangling' which means it can't be scheduled or has circular dependancies... no idea why it can't be made to work.

(from your interesting link)

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

[Gregb05]

ctrl+alt+backspace?

Plans for Heron

[RandoX]

Bake at 325 for 45 minutes. Serve with Wine sauce.

Re:more details

[MooseMuffin]

Being tricked into installing linux is the least of your problems if you're getting spam with 700mb attachments.

Re:Ubuntu To Do List

[Anonymous Coward]

* switch binaries to PE executables with .exe file extension

* 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 .lnk file extension, which point to the linked file only when double-clicking it in the file browser, and cannot be used as a "virtual" file

* ignore bugs

</sarcasm>

Are they planning to fix the most appaling issue?

[ceeam]

Are they gonna start regarding KDE as first-class citizen? 'Cos Gutsy Kubuntu is a joke. And GNOME IMO is totally evil.

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:Ubuntu To Do List

[johannesg]

How much would it cost to pay you to just go the fuck away?

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

[xenocide2]

You know what they say: Behind every great man is a woman pushing him to excel. Or something. I'm just glad it worked out -- imagine the flame wars on what to rename the distro had they broken up!