Unity

Unity 7.4.0

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Project:
Unity
Series:
7.4
Version:
7.4.0
Released:
 
Registrant:
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
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25 Marco Trevisan (Treviño), 1 Matthias Klose, 1 Sebastien Bacher, 4 Stephen M. Webb, 1 Yu-Cheng Chou
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1 New, 1 Incomplete, 7 Confirmed, 29 Triaged, 7 In Progress, 18 Fix Released

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Release notes 

- Improved launcher integration with file manager and devices
- Support for formatting removable devices from quicklist
- Improved support for gtk applications using headerbars
- Improvements to the switcher and spread backends
- Activate app spread by Super+Ctrl+W
- Unity control center option to always show menus
- Improvements to GNOME key grabbing
- New dash overlay scrollbars
- Better Dash theming support
- Support for scaling cursors in HiDPI environments
- Show icons launching state in launcher when apps launched elsewhere
- Launcher can be moved to the bottom

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0 blueprints and 63 bugs targeted

Bug report Importance Assignee Status
1288998 #1288998 Make dash-widgets.json themeable 5 Low Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  0 New
1310518 #1310518 Touch screen and touchpad lost click function after quickly tapped dash home repeatly by touch screen 3 High   1 Incomplete
814833 #814833 Opening the dash is very slow and laggy 3 High   6 Confirmed
846407 #846407 xrdp is not able to transmitt unity desktop correct - different clients 4 Medium   6 Confirmed
872408 #872408 Mulitouch gestures send cursor moving, when curson frozen in a window 4 Medium   6 Confirmed
1116561 #1116561 Mounting device from launcher fails silently 4 Medium   6 Confirmed
1299054 #1299054 resizing loop on high-dpi screen 4 Medium   6 Confirmed
1366801 #1366801 Border in count emblem in alt+tab switcher is misaligned 4 Medium   6 Confirmed
1431513 #1431513 Properly handle dismissal of first run shortcut overlay 4 Medium   6 Confirmed
49579 #49579 screen doesn't lock when some menu is open 3 High Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  7 Triaged
1295908 #1295908 Some dash searches don't return application results, but retrying or toggling the 'applications' filter works 3 High   7 Triaged
1506095 #1506095 Shutdown dialog is not working properly when the mouse is grabbed by something else 3 High   7 Triaged
834465 #834465 Unity dash ignores GNOME cursor blink settings 4 Medium   7 Triaged
891575 #891575 Launcher - launcher should have blurred background all the time 4 Medium   7 Triaged
985987 #985987 Multi-monitor, Menu bar - Selecting the desktop in a monitor, causes all the panels to show the "Ubuntu Desktop" title 4 Medium   7 Triaged
987787 #987787 Multi-monitor - Reduce the stickyness of the 'sticky edges' 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  7 Triaged
1039942 #1039942 [regression][GLES] scale mode is slow and stutters when unityshell is loaded 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1066963 #1066963 Dash - Update the Dash to use the Ubuntu medium font weight 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1121941 #1121941 Spread (Super+W) causes maximised windows to resize/repaint and not just scale 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1167438 #1167438 Double clicking launcher icon that goes to a different workspace causes it to get stuck. 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1234646 #1234646 Dash - Results from music related scopes in the Dash Home are not displayed in the bottom bar Music Scope (previously Lens), Google docs not displayed in the Dash Home, etc... 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1235056 #1235056 Unity Dash doesn't have touch-screen scrolling gestures 4 Medium Stephen M. Webb  7 Triaged
1250262 #1250262 Calling EndSessionDialog.Open(Restart) opens the dialog with a focused 'Shutdown' button 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1283314 #1283314 Launcher and top panel should have an outline/border in Spread Mode 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  7 Triaged
1291886 #1291886 Can't drag url from firefox onto the launcher 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1330041 #1330041 Bad / incorrect display accented letters in Window title bar [ast] 4 Medium   7 Triaged
1379474 #1379474 unity://running-apps position in launcher ignored during startup 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  7 Triaged
1467695 #1467695 Alt-Grave (`) switcher has flickering/pulsing shadow artifacts 4 Medium   7 Triaged
775434 #775434 Keyboard shortcut - Make Unity keyboard shortcuts configurable 5 Low   7 Triaged
983248 #983248 Dash - the text in range filters is micro-sized 5 Low   7 Triaged
1072052 #1072052 [regression] HUD - No results from Indicator Menus 5 Low   7 Triaged
1163459 #1163459 Dragging the Nautlius "Home" Button is ignored by the XdndManager and has "text/url-list" 5 Low   7 Triaged
1256703 #1256703 Shutdown dialog doesn't shutdown automatically after given time 5 Low   7 Triaged
1457910 #1457910 Unity panels steal input events while under (some) fullscreen windows 5 Low   7 Triaged
1496414 #1496414 Window screenshots contain blurred titlebar with LIM 5 Low Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  7 Triaged
1047327 #1047327 Dash - Previews for many file types not yet working 6 Wishlist   7 Triaged
1300099 #1300099 Color of choosen text in DASH should be in theme-matching color 6 Wishlist   7 Triaged
1508635 #1508635 Build with multiarch support 6 Wishlist Matthias Klose  7 Triaged
1308800 #1308800 Unity doesn't respawn all the times on crashes 2 Critical Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  8 In Progress
1321075 #1321075 It's impossible to exit from screensaver if a menu or an application grabs the screen 3 High Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  8 In Progress
1322769 #1322769 14.04 LTS AMD64 Password/Keyboard Lockup after Unity Lock Timeout with VirtualBox VMs Running 3 High   8 In Progress
1231222 #1231222 unity-panel-service: indicators never unload, leak memory on shutdown 4 Medium Stephen M. Webb  8 In Progress
1372130 #1372130 SpacerLauncherIcon hadn't been removed from launcher 4 Medium Yu-Cheng Chou  8 In Progress
1485668 #1485668 Installing unity from sources always requires admin privileges. 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  8 In Progress
1316862 #1316862 Panel mouse events don't make the fade-to-blank stop 5 Low Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  8 In Progress
1359211 #1359211 Mouse cursor tiny when hovering unity elements in high DPI mode 3 High Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1445595 #1445595 Empty trash from Launcher results in Nautilus window opening 3 High Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1511542 #1511542 [2.26 Regression] binutils assertion fail ../../bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c:4631 3 High Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1512909 #1512909 Port unity to Python 3 3 High Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1063838 #1063838 Launcher - clicking on a Storage Device icon in the Launcher should focus then spread the Nautilus windows that are displaying the storage device's content 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1161323 #1161323 Launcher - Trash and Storage device icons in the Launcher should use triangles or pips based on the opened windows 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1350487 #1350487 Nautilus opens twice from launcher when first window browses mounted drive 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1508974 #1508974 Unity bugs reported via apport shoud contain more informations 4 Medium Sebastien Bacher  10 Fix Released
1512349 #1512349 The switcher is not updated when a new window opens while it's presented 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1513496 #1513496 Panel flickers when clicking over menus 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1513523 #1513523 IndicatorEntry is not prelighted on click 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1514538 #1514538 Unit tests aren't enabled for arm64 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1517455 #1517455 Newly opened windows aren't spreaded when spreading an application 4 Medium Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
750497 #750497 Workspace switcher has no quicklist 5 Low Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1023745 #1023745 Wishlist: Unity's .png resources could be much smaller 5 Low Stephen M. Webb  10 Fix Released
1486498 #1486498 "unity --reset" wrongly says "deprecated" and fails to say what to do instead 5 Low Stephen M. Webb  10 Fix Released
1501289 #1501289 unity-panel-service "Source ID was not found when attempting to remove it" warnings 5 Low Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
1468820 #1468820 close windows from switcher [wishlist] 6 Wishlist Marco Trevisan (Treviño)  10 Fix Released
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