== Meeting information == * #ubuntustudio-devel Meeting, 12 May at 19:00 — 20:23 UTC * Full logs at [[http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntustudio-devel/2018/ubuntustudio-devel.2018-05-12-19.00.log.html]] == Meeting summary == === New Website Theme (Eylul, SlidingHorn) === The discussion about "New Website Theme (Eylul, SlidingHorn)" started at 19:05. === Desktop Environments === The discussion about "Desktop Environments" started at 19:09. * ''ACTION:'' OvenWerks to work on forking kubuntu-settings-desktop package and create ubuntustudio-plasma package. * ''ACTION:'' Erich to work on GIMP-MyPaint conflict with release team. === Wallpapers === The discussion about "Wallpapers" started at 19:39. * '''Targeting PNG format vs JPEG for submissions''' (19:39) * ''ACTION:'' eylul and OvenWerks to test various wallpaper resolutions and report back. === Welcome App & Software Boutique === The discussion about "Welcome App & Software Boutique" started at 20:06. * ''ACTION:'' ErichEickmeyer to work with tsimonq on ubuntustudio-welcome and ubuntustudio-software-boutique in collaboration with Lubuntu, with Budgie (bashfulrobot) and MATE (Wimpress) as possible additional resources. === Next Meeting === The discussion about "Next Meeting" started at 20:12. === Additional Items === The discussion about "Additional Items" started at 20:18. * ''ACTION:'' SlidingHorn to help eylul with Mastodon account. * ''ACTION:'' ErichEickmeyer will continue to investigate Telegram and Telegram-IRC bridge. * ''ACTION:'' OvenWerks to continue to get ubuntustudio-controls migrated to git. == Vote results == == Action items, by person == * ErichEickmeyer * ErichEickmeyer to work with tsimonq on ubuntustudio-welcome and ubuntustudio-software-boutique in collaboration with Lubuntu, with Budgie (bashfulrobot) and MATE (Wimpress) as possible additional resources. * ErichEickmeyer will continue to investigate Telegram and Telegram-IRC bridge. * eylul * eylul and OvenWerks to test various wallpaper resolutions and report back. * SlidingHorn to help eylul with Mastodon account. * OvenWerks * OvenWerks to work on forking kubuntu-settings-desktop package and create ubuntustudio-plasma package. * eylul and OvenWerks to test various wallpaper resolutions and report back. * OvenWerks to continue to get ubuntustudio-controls migrated to git. * SlidingHorn * SlidingHorn to help eylul with Mastodon account. == Done items == * (none) == People present (lines said) == * ErichEickmeyer (136) * OvenWerks (78) * eylul (65) * meetingology (17) * SlidingHorn (12) * krytarik (5) * captain-tux_ (4) * sakrecoe1 (0) == Full Log == 19:00 #startmeeting 19:00 Meeting started Sat May 12 19:00:14 2018 UTC. The chair is ErichEickmeyer. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 19:00 19:00 Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 19:00 #chair ErichEickmeyer 19:00 Current chairs: ErichEickmeyer 19:00 #chair eylul 19:00 Current chairs: ErichEickmeyer eylul 19:00 #chair krytarik 19:00 Current chairs: ErichEickmeyer eylul krytarik 19:00 #chair captain-tux_ 19:00 Current chairs: ErichEickmeyer captain-tux_ eylul krytarik 19:00 #chair OvenWerks 19:00 Current chairs: ErichEickmeyer OvenWerks captain-tux_ eylul krytarik 19:00 #chair sakrecoe1 19:00 Current chairs: ErichEickmeyer OvenWerks captain-tux_ eylul krytarik sakrecoe1 19:01 Anybody else here? 19:01 WOW, I have never used meeting-whatever before 19:01 LOL 19:01 It accepts multiple nicks at once btw. 19:01 Good to know. 19:02 How is everyone? 19:03 yes, very how. 19:03 Such what, very how, super where. Wow. 19:04 I'm here - sorry 19:04 #aggree 19:04 wasn't paying attention 19:04 Okay, not seeing eylul or SlidingHorn just yet, and the first item is involving them, so .... oh, there's SlidingHorn 19:04 o 19:04 o/ 19:04 o/ 19:04 Oops 19:04 Okay, so here comes the first topic: 19:05 #topic New Website Theme (Eylul, SlidingHorn) 19:05 So, how's the progress on that, SlidingHorn? 19:06 Unfortunately I haven't gotten anywhere on that, my apologies. 19:06 I'm not aware of what exactly needs to be done, however 19:06 Well, it's really a matter of migrating the theme on eylul's site to ubuntustudio.com. 19:07 And maybe getting some photos on there as well. 19:07 As for the rest, she has more info. 19:07 We can table that topic for now if you'd like. 19:07 Okay, I'll make a point of contacting eylul within the next 24 hours to get that moving 19:08 Okay, cool. I think if we got that theme going, we'd make a very public statement that we're making progress and moving forward. 19:08 I don't think eylul has been around... some of what we were saying yesterday should have gotten a comment... 19:09 Yeah. I'm sure she'll turn up. 19:09 Probably busy. Happens. 19:09 Let's move on. 19:09 #topic Desktop Environments 19:10 OvenWerks: Loved your review of Plasma. Expressed my sentiments very well. 19:11 I think we should see if we can add a ubuntustudio-plasma meta to our repo. 19:12 Agreed. I honestly think that should be our first addition, and maybe stick with Xfce as the default. 19:12 We should probably rename the current one to ubuntustudio-xfce 19:12 Yeah. That'd be a good idea. 19:12 we could then take the current name and point it at one or the other as default. 19:12 A transitional dummy package. 19:13 probably not transitional, but as a way to point people at the default who have no idea what xfce or plasma mean 19:13 *sneaks in to the room* 19:14 o/ 19:14 * ErichEickmeyer notices a wild eylul appears 19:14 Quick! Get me a pokeball! 19:14 (stealth check failed) 19:14 :) oh dear. 19:14 haha 19:14 Welcome! 19:14 *natural 1* 19:14 * eylul quickly catches up to the backlog 19:15 ROFL 19:15 and please continue the discussion don't let me disrupt the meeting. sorry for being late 19:15 No worries. 19:16 OvenWerks: Do you think you could take the kubuntu-settings-desktop package and modify it to be more "Studio" like? Simply put, wallpaper and start button. 19:17 ErichEickmeyer: I will try... 19:17 Okay, cool. 19:17 I have both a bzr -controls and a git -controls sitting here and will try converting the LP version to git. 19:18 #info OvenWerks to work on forking kubuntu-settings-desktop package and create ubuntustudio-plasma package. 19:18 (may have misused that command) 19:18 I will try starting the plasma as git. 19:18 Perfect. That would get us migrated easier, I think. 19:18 That's #action 19:18 I was about to say that... 19:18 #undo 19:18 Removing item from minutes: INFO 19:18 #action OvenWerks to work on forking kubuntu-settings-desktop package and create ubuntustudio-plasma package. 19:18 * meetingology OvenWerks to work on forking kubuntu-settings-desktop package and create ubuntustudio-plasma package. 19:19 Awesome. So, I think we've established our first alternate environment. Should we stick with Xfce by default for now? 19:20 We have time to decide that when we have a working plasma desktop... 19:21 Cool. Let's roll forward with ubuntustudio-plasma and decide whether xfce or plasma will be default in 18.10 at a later time. 19:21 So yes default stays xfce, unless we vote something else 19:21 honestly considering timelines... even if we planned to switch defaults, 6 months really isn't a long time :) 19:21 That's true. Maybe we make the Plasma alternate and consider changing default for 19.04? 19:22 right, but if we get to beta with either or being able to load... it would be a choice. 19:22 Right. That's a choice we can put into the installer via radio button dialog, I think. 19:23 *nods* 19:23 The ISO will have to have a default, however. I think for size sake, Xfce is a safe default still. 19:23 you know.... 19:24 and I am putting this out here, just as a long term idea because we definitely don't have the packaging-testing power at the moment but... 19:24 we could possibly perhaps maybe have ISOs with both? so people can download what they want. *ducks the incoming objects from multiple directions* 19:25 If we have the manpower... 19:25 eylul: how far do we go with that? 19:25 I know Lubuntu did this for a while with LXQt, and they have a similar staffing situation to us. 19:25 how many iso should we keep? 19:25 this could be a good idea if we had 2 DEs. probably a very bad idea for all 5 of them. 19:26 right. 19:26 I wouldn't offer this if not for glowing review of plasma from OvenWerks. usually his and my user cases are very different so it makes me hopeful about it 19:26 Well, let's look at it like this: The top two default desktops for multimedia creation are Xfce (probably because of Studio) and Plasma (KXStudio, Fedora Jam) 19:26 while I would suggest that budgie, cinnamon, cnome are not suited as defaults, there is not reason not to offer them as install time options. 19:27 I can agree with that. 19:27 MATE, xfce and plasma are doable. 19:28 So, then that begs the question about new desktops: Plasma for 18.10 and then add MATE for 19.04? 19:28 unless lxqt basically takes over the xfce world in the next few years... I don't know that it would be worth spending time on right now. 19:28 I am just hoping maybe having a separate ISO would get people to try it out and test it beyond the regular testing process. 19:29 ah 19:29 eylul: That's exactly what Lubuntu did with Lubuntu-Next for LXQt, so I don't see why we can't do it. 19:29 Especially since I'm working relatively closely with tsimonq2. 19:29 * eylul nods at OvenWerks 19:30 Notice that they never actually *released* the LXQt until now though. 19:30 ErichEickmeyer: this might be a good route IF we decide that something other than XFCE is the new default 19:30 I didn't mean we'd do UbuntuStudio-Next. I mean we'd do UbuntuStudio-XFCE and UbuntuStudio-Plasma. 19:30 It would not be hard to have two iso if 32bit is gone. 19:31 That's a good point, too! 19:32 the installer bit would have to be part of the desktop meta. 19:32 (it would be different for each iso) 19:33 As long as we can get the metapackages sorted out, it should fall into place. 19:33 BTW, related: until MyPaint gets upgraded, our ISOs are going to continue to fail to build. 19:34 I don't see anything upstream for that. 19:34 I'll work with the release team on perhaps getting a git snapshot, which was suggested by jbicha. 19:34 * OvenWerks is not watching their dev work closely 19:35 Either that, or we'll have to remove MyPaint from default. 19:35 our graphics meta fails to load as well 19:35 That's because of the GIMP-MyPaint discrepency. 19:35 right 19:35 Anyhow... 19:36 it does look like the code is updated at least. so the work is ongoing 19:36 (sorry was checking their forums and github for any progress* 19:36 #action Erich to work on GIMP-MyPaint conflict with release team. 19:36 * meetingology Erich to work on GIMP-MyPaint conflict with release team. 19:37 So, did we reach the decision on adding Plasma as the first alternate desktop? 19:37 I'm in favor. 19:37 +1 19:37 +1 19:37 +1 19:37 * OvenWerks seconds 19:37 sd 19:38 (sorry was wiping off my keyboard) 19:38 looks like a vote 19:38 That looks like a majority if not unity. 19:38 #agreed Adding KDE Plasma as first alternate desktop environment in 18.10 19:39 Okay, with that, we'll drop the survey idea. 19:39 Anyhow, let's move this along. 19:39 #topic Wallpapers 19:39 #subtopic Targeting PNG format vs JPEG for submissions 19:40 OvenWerks: Can you fill us in on this one? 19:40 I can try... 19:41 because of the hurry at the end of last cycle, we ended up with a backdrop we were going to add that was JPG. and required changing two packages. 19:41 we should probably avoid this in the future by settling on a format to use 19:42 Agreed. PNG seems like the logical solution. 19:42 my main concern at least with this wallpaper was that the png file ended up being huge 19:42 it seems to me in the past PNG was specified for contest entries and defaults. 19:43 the wallpapers from the contest seemed to be a mix, the defaults are created as vector. I am not against png as default. I am just not sure at which point 19:43 My main question is how do the two formats deal quality wise with sizing? 19:43 what do you mean OvenWerks? 19:43 Isn't PNG basically lossless compression? 19:43 everyone has different screen sizes, 19:43 resizing affects png too 19:44 ErichEickmeyer: not sure it scales up when the original is not a vector art 19:44 a hw screen has an exact number of pixels. 19:44 So the backdrop is resized on the fly I would guess 19:45 this might mean a jpg would actually resize better. 19:45 Well, then, what if we had both? 19:46 * OvenWerks doesn't know how closely graphics is to audio in this respect. 19:46 the reason we want one to be default is that we only have to change one package to set default not two (or three) 19:46 could we modify the script 19:47 TBH, svg is the most scalable, but that's not common for wallpapers. 19:47 so that we can specify the file type on one package? 19:47 Also Erich we would still have to have started with a vector art to use that. 19:47 I don't know how plasma deals with this, but xfce needs the file name in a certian place 19:47 yes auto-trace got a lot better, but not quite that good :) 19:48 Plasma also needs the files in a certain place, but I had great luck with symbolic links for the wallpapers. 19:48 we do specify the type in one package... but we keep the image in another. 19:48 * eylul is testing exact file sizes of png output again while talking. 19:48 Xfce looks in /usr/share/backgrounds, plasma looks in /usr/share/wallpapers 19:48 link would fix that. 19:48 and plasma would handle a full path. 19:49 (same with xfce) 19:49 Yep. All I did was 'ln -s /usr/share/backgrounds/ubuntustudio/* /usr/share/wallpapers/* 19:50 now if we could use wildcards image.* that would be fine, but I don't think so. 19:50 well.. we now have time to test it out 19:50 Yeah. Let's test this and report back next meeting? 19:50 also.. speaking of testing we should probably test that the high res image (png or jpeg) is not bogging down a low end system. 19:51 How low are you talking? 19:51 the path to image has to be in the -desktop-DE meta but the images should be in a package common to both. 19:51 how low do we support I honestly have no idea if this would be an issue or not. 19:51 eylul: I don't think that is a problem, the image gets resized once on load? 19:52 the image is over 5MB for each screen (6-7 for png) not sure if it is a problem or not. 19:52 ah 19:52 Well, as I've said before, if you're running many of our apps you either have a higher-end system or have unworldly amounts of patience. 19:52 :D 19:52 ErichEickmeyer: yes but... 19:52 screen size is not the same thing 19:52 That's true. 19:53 also the problem is that we are putting a very large image for even someone who has 1/4th area of the screen. 19:53 There are both lower power/memory systems than mine with higher rez screens and more powerful ones with lower rez.. 19:53 Yeah, and it has to render that every time the desktop is shown. That adds up to problematic quickly. 19:54 exactly 19:54 So, do we, say, go roughly 720 and scale up, or meet somewhere in the middle at 1080? 19:55 Erich for context, I am on a 4K screen. 19:55 I'm on a 1080. 19:55 that's double of a 1080p on each dimension 19:55 1920x1080? 19:55 :D 19:55 My former system was 1280x800. 19:55 I think that was what we were looking for last time 19:55 Before that I had a system at 1366x768. 19:56 mine are 1600x900 19:56 *nods* a lot of newer laptops are 1920 or HiDPI through. it is a lot more common than it was 2-3 years ago. :) 19:56 Then, set 1080 as a target? 19:56 gotta compete with apple... 19:56 I think that is still valid 19:57 But, this still has the question of whether PNG or JPG. Would the two of you be able to test and report back by next meeting? 19:57 we can go with png. it is not a problem. 19:58 I just need to know how much MB size I can go with before we start bogging down systems badly. 19:58 and I am not sure how to check that. 19:58 it might be that we don't need to worry and that a few MB sized wallpaper is perfectly fine 19:58 Most low-end systems handle PNG fairly gracefully, in my experience. 19:58 which size is the question here. ;) 19:59 Okay, so we'll go with PNG, and size TBD? 19:59 which file size. yes 19:59 as in if we have a maximum or not 19:59 eylul: in a 20inch screen is there that much noticable difference from 1920x1020 and 4k? 20:00 I'll look for background but on browser 20:00 I definitely notice stuff that is low rez 20:00 On my 42-inch 1080 screen at work, I can definitely see pixelation, but that makes sense. 20:01 *nods* 20:01 42 inch is too big for my desk... 20:01 * OvenWerks can't land f18s on it either... 20:01 Yeah, but I make videos for a living, so having something native is good. 20:02 So, should we table this for more testing? 20:02 yeah 20:03 * eylul wishes had space for a 42" screen. 20:03 it would be possible to have default and optional. 20:03 Okay. eylul and OvenWerks to do testing? 20:03 I can do a bit, but my screens are small and low res 20:04 *nods* I'll check what things look like on my screen if they are low rez. I think what I need is someone to make sure the current ones I did post are not causing overhead 20:04 too badly when used. 20:04 OvenWerks can check higher on low, and eylul can check lower on high. 20:04 Perfect comparison. 20:04 the ones I did link were high resolution. :) 20:04 of course 8k is "future proof" for a bit longer :) 20:04 so if they don't cause problems then we don't have a problem. 20:05 is there 8K screens out there outside of large displays? 20:05 ;) 20:05 #action eylul and OvenWerks to test various wallpaper resolutions and report back. 20:05 * meetingology eylul and OvenWerks to test various wallpaper resolutions and report back. 20:06 #agreed Using PNG as default format for wallpapers 20:06 We need to move this along. 20:06 #topic Welcome App & Software Boutique 20:06 I'm just going to give a brief status update on this one. 20:08 I'm working with tsimonq2 on forking ubuntu-mate-welcome since we can collaborate. He's doing it for Lubuntu, I'm doing it for Studio. It's up to Wimpress, but I have the feeling he could give us tips along the way if needed. 20:08 So, that's part of the flavor collaboration we've got going on. 20:08 budgie uses it too. 20:09 \o/ 20:09 Yep, and bashfulrobot is probably a good resource as well. 20:09 So, with that, since this is a project I'm focusing on, I'll take this one on. 20:09 I notice it is a snap package and that the mounted patitions remain after the app is closed. 20:10 #action ErichEickmeyer to work with tsimonq on ubuntustudio-welcome and ubuntustudio-software-boutique in collaboration with Lubuntu, with Budgie (bashfulrobot) and MATE (Wimpress) as possible additional resources. 20:10 * meetingology ErichEickmeyer to work with tsimonq on ubuntustudio-welcome and ubuntustudio-software-boutique in collaboration with Lubuntu, with Budgie (bashfulrobot) and MATE (Wimpress) as possible additional resources. 20:11 OvenWerks: I'll ask Wimpress about that. Chances are he'll see this. 20:11 ErichEickmeyer: question, would having 2DEs duplicate your work or one package will be usable for both plasma and XFCE? 20:11 One package would be usable for both. 20:11 nice :) 20:11 no problem, snap may do some of this at boot too for all I know. 20:12 Ya, that would work for as many as we ever have. 20:12 It's pretty desktop-independent. 20:12 Anyhow... we're running a bit overtime, so... 20:12 #topic Next Meeting 20:13 As you saw from the email, I'm not available next week. We can take the week off or I can write-up an agenda and one of you runs the meeing. Thoughts? 20:13 just a general caution. check any package before uploading to make sure it has not changed from bzr to git. 20:14 A week off would not hurt. I have stuff to do. 20:14 OvenWerks: Absolutely. I think it's more of a base than a fork. :) 20:15 I am available on the 26 though 20:16 I would actually be gone next weekend as well, most likely 20:16 I should be available on the 26th as well. Memorial day weekend, and my family will be in Idaho. 20:16 Okay. eylul, thoughts? 20:16 I wouldn't mind a break. 20:16 Cool. 20:16 #agreed Next meeting will be May 26th 20:16 Alright. That's all I've got. Any additional items? 20:17 I was going to ask if Slidinghorn or anyone else wants to co-manage the mastodon account. 20:17 so that we can be more active there. Just asking because I need to share the account info with you. 20:17 if that is the case 20:17 eylul: Sure 20:18 That reminds me, I have yet to make the Telegram group. 20:18 #topic Additional Items 20:18 #action SlidingHorn to help eylul with Mastodon account. 20:18 * meetingology SlidingHorn to help eylul with Mastodon account. 20:19 #action ErichEickmeyer will continue to investigate Telegram and Telegram-IRC bridge. 20:19 * meetingology ErichEickmeyer will continue to investigate Telegram and Telegram-IRC bridge. 20:19 Anything else? 20:19 not from me. 20:19 No 20:19 -controls has not really moved porting to git today. 20:20 That's okay. Still working on that? 20:20 I have the fun of getting it on to launchpad. 20:20 Joy. /s 20:21 Unless you weren't being sarcastic with the "fun" 20:21 #action OvenWerks to continue to get ubuntustudio-controls migrated to git. 20:21 * meetingology OvenWerks to continue to get ubuntustudio-controls migrated to git. 20:21 it was a one linner to get it to git on my system. 20:21 Wow! That's.. incredible! 20:22 some of the links in the instructions are bad though :P 20:22 Hmmm.... Documentation. :/ 20:23 Anyhow, shall we adjourn or do we have any other items to discuss? 20:23 I guess I can bug it. 20:23 was that a move? 20:23 I move to adjourn. Second? 20:23 o/ 20:23 Okay. Meeting adjourned. 20:23 #endmeeting Generated by MeetBot 0.1.5 (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology)