Author Archives: akgraner

Some Further Notes on Qt in Ubuntu

By akgraner | Published: 2011-01-18

Mark recently blogged about plans to make Qt a first-class citizen alongside GTK in Ubuntu. He outlined the reason for the plan in the opening few paragraphs: As part of our planning for Natty+1, we’ll need to find some space on the CD for Qt libraries, and we will evaluate applications developed with Qt for […]

Announcing the Next Ubuntu Bug Day – GNOME Power Manager – Thursday, November 18th, 2010!

By akgraner | Published: 2010-11-17

This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* GNOME Power Manager! The task is to assign to the right package and triage those as well: 50 New bugs need a hug 50 Incomplete bugs need a status check 50 Confirmed bugs need a review Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 214

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-18

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #214 for the week October 11th, 2010 – October 16th, 2010 and is available in full here. In this issue we cover: Improving The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Survey Translators: you are awesome and you should be proud of it Enabling Automatic Bug Expiry Unity and uTouch […]

Auto Bug Expiry on Launchpad

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-16

I’m sure many of you may have heard by now, but we’re getting close to re-enabling automatic bug expiry on Launchpad. There’s a post about this on the Launchpad blog: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/enabling-automatic-bug-expiry What do you mean “re-enabling”? Launchpad has always advertised that we auto-expire inactive incomplete bugs, but we haven’t done this for awhile now. Some developers are using their […]

Demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-14

To see a demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity click here. Originally posted on Ubuntu Developers on blip.tv.