Sysads Gazette

The inclusion of PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE’s desktop and file manager An all-new modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps Several improvements to the system settings along with the inclusion of screens management, keyboard settings and file associations Improvements to cursor and appearance settings Improved support for systemd-based setups Ongoing work on Qt 5 compatibility. Most of our components already build on Qt 5!

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Deprecate gnome-session and use upstart/systemd as the root process </li> <li> Deprecate gnome-screensaver (following upstream) and unify screensaver management into the shell </li> <li> Deprecate policykit-gnome and use the shell for PolicyKit handling in both Unity 7 and Unity 8 </li> <li> Deprecate unity-settings-daemon by decoupling the plugins and migrating to new services </li> <li> Add more desktop capabilities in Ubuntu System Settings to replace unity-control-center </li> <li> Enhance the core apps to replace current defaults e.