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This has been an very different year for me, but so far so good, things happened and despite the crazy itinerary to get the most "almost" cheap tickets...

I still get the best e-mails :) From: Tibor To: jriddell@ubuntu.com Subject: Thank you! Hello Kubuntu/Ubuntu-Team, i only want to say thank you for the great operating system Kubuntu, you are the best. I`m very happy with this. Read More

After many years of working away from my bedroom desk I was invited to a party at the opening of a new hotdesking space. Tech Cube is an attempt to create an entrepreneurial office space in Edinburgh. As I heard it the old Royal Dick (no sniggering at the back) vet school got sold to a nice guy with deep pockets who is turning it into an arts complex but the ugly wee tower block stuck on the side was not very artistic so get turned into this little project. Read More

I get the best e-mails Subject: Kubuntu love Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 12:26:56 +0100 Hello Jonathan I really wasn't sure who to write to about this, but I got your name from the Kubuntu site as a contact. Read More

A repost of Martin Gräßlin's blog Mir in Kubuntu for the benefit of Planet Ubuntu As you might have seen in Jonathan’s blog post we discussed Mir in Kubuntu at the “Mataro Sessions II”. It’s a topic I would have preferred to not have to discuss at all. But the dynamics in the free software world force us to discuss it and obviously our downstream needs to know why we as an upstream do not consider Mir adoption as a valid option. Read More

Distrowatch is a handy site to check out the history of Kubuntu. Today they put up a review of Kubuntu 13.04. "Kubuntu gave me a very responsive graphical environment, an application menu which was free from advertisements and the distribution did not insist I install third-party drivers just to use my desktop." Ubuntu Unity comes in for some critisism though, probably when they post (back) to Qt their graphics requirements will become sane again. Read More

Notes from breakout on Homerun: Needs to move to Extragear no upstream designer in Plasma so hard to change fundementals like app menu KWin would be against it as default, uses full screen blur, no visual consistency between it and dashboard Does not show app generic names netrunner says full screen is distracting for a menu no filters no recent apps Notes from breakout on High DPI sceens: Read More

Me and Rohan and Harald spent the day playing with the cheapo Sony Vaio laptop I got with Windows 8 and UEFI firmware. This laptop has many partitions: sda1 is fat32 and contains a Boot and a Microsoft EFI boot loaders sda2 is ntfs and contains Windows Recovery bits sda3 is efi/fat32 and contains a Boot, a Microsoft, a kubuntu and a ubuntu EFI boot loader sda4 is a Microsoft reserved parition and won't mount, spooky sda5 is an ntfs partition and has Windows 8 on it sda6 is ext4 and I install Ubuntu and Kubuntu to it sda7 is a linux-swap partition Read More

Since there's no UDS we have a room booked at Akademy to spend the day discussing things in Kubuntu if you're coming put yourself on https://notes.kde.org/p/kubuntu-akademy Would be good to have as many Kubuntu people there as possible. The Kubuntu Council has funds if you need sponsorship for travel, don't be afraid to ask.

Here's some notes from the breakout sessions we had yesterday for my own recolation. KWin and Wayland on Kubuntu Differences between Wayland and Mir are minimal, only client vs server side buffer allocation, so no benefit from it for a desktop distro dri3000 is a project to make X do client side buffer allocating KWin won't support Mir, (unless canonical wants to do it) it has no ABI stability KWin was working on Wayland suppport, now shifted effort to Qt 5 support before going back to Wayland work. KWin in 4.11 might work with Qt 5 but not for distros to use X wayland is a rootless X server used in both Wayland and Mir, no use for KWin which needs a rooted X server. wayland has libwaylandserver and libwaylandclient libraries, libwaylandclient for use in toolkits like Qt. current KWin architecture not fully planned but probably Weston as system compositor and KWin as client compositor worry that Canonical might havily patch mesa for Unity/Mir making Kwin/Weston break (more then it already is) Only Weston needed for LightDM then Kwin started same as currently by startkde (maybe a bit earlier in the script) Change to Wayland for Kubuntu about 14.10 or 15.04 Wayland & Weston release every 3 months, KWin every 6 months Unity will have 1 binary equivalent to X, compiz and unity Weston can be run on X for testing current thinking is to ensure Debian's Weston packages are in Ubuntu archive and use those for Kubuntu, might make ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop not easily co-installable Installer ubiquity-dm a tricky point Read More