Day One

Category: Ubuntu

The first day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Boston ended. It is quite nice to see a lot of people from other projects and distribution here around. Furthermore juding from the number of quality assurance guys the next LTS release is going to be very polished and rocking stable.

PackageKit

Several distributions made a statement of interest in gaining a common infrastructure to tigger simple software management operations, e.g. the clock applet could install the ntp client regardeless of which distribution you use. Furthermore PackageKit will allow us to share basic software management applications among many distros, e.g. the update manager is currently implemented by every distribution differently.

I am currently preparing packages and will upload them to my PPA soon - although the apt backend is very very basic at the moment. Porting gnome-app-install and update-manager to PackageKit will be a quite interesting task and I hope to get it all done for Hardy+1.

DisplayConfig - XRandR

Setting up multiple monitors will greatly improve for Hardy. Michael and me wrote python bindings for XRandR that will be used by DisplayConfigGTK. This will allow you to configure e.g. your TV output or second screen instantly by two or three simple clicks. Since Fedora works on a simliar projects we are negotiating areas for collaboration. It is nice to see that we all want to get things solved and working!

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  1. Mårten Woxberg

    Saturday, 10-11-07 12:20

    How can I access your PPA?
    I wanted to try out PackageKit but there's no deb files available...

  2. Sebastian Heinlein

    Monday, 05-11-07 05:36

    The new memory handling of X (TTM) will be hopefully shipped in one year.

  3. Sebastian Heinlein

    Monday, 05-11-07 05:34

    Michael actually has still no time. So I worked on them too. Actually it is quite hard to find a sane way for the virtual size, since a too high one will break dri on older intel systems.

  4. Alberto Milone

    Tuesday, 30-10-07 16:34

    I'm glad to read that Michael can spend some time to complete his python bindings for XRandR.

    I'm sure they will be great when you clone screens. If you try to set up 2 screens in Xinerama style, you will have to put the Virtual resolution in your xorg.conf, which should be big enough to contain both screens [since the current drivers cannot reallocate frame buffer (this should be solved sooner or later)]. This won't be hard to implement (as I did in URandR) but it will still require users to restart the Xserver.

    Let me know if you need my help or if you just want to talk about it.

    Regards,

    Alberto (aka "tseliot")
 

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