Xubuntu team report for July 2009

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Cody investigated the new gdm and feasibility of adapting it for Xubuntu.
• Cody patched gdm so that it no longer pulls in all of gnome (just quite a bit of it).

• SiDi implemented and Mr_pouit packaged xfce4-volumed for the NotifyOsd spec

• SiDi began patching Exaile for possible inclusion in Karmic

• Cody seeded xfce4-power-manager in place of gnome-power-manager and sent out a call for testing.
• Cody performed memory profiling on xfce4-power-manager and identified ways to reduce its memory footprint.

Marketing, Artwork

• Brainstorming.

• QuickShip Xubuntu CDs

Community

• End-user support done.

• SiDi created specification templates and app comparison templates

• SiDi wrote specifications for the default music player and NotifyOsd

• Ochosi wrote specifications for the default image viewer (with SiDi's help) and for the default mail client