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title: "Ubuntu Studio Development Meeting: April 7, 2018"
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slug: "ubuntu-studio-development-meeting-april-7-2018"
published_at: "2018-04-07T20:55:40+00:00"
modified_at: "2018-04-07T20:55:40+00:00"
url: "https://ubuntustudio.org/2018/04/ubuntu-studio-development-meeting-april-7-2018/"
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excerpt: "On April 7, 2018, the Ubuntu Studio Development Team met. Among the items discussed were the following: Looking into changing or adding wallpaper for 18.04 Install-time package selection bug fixed, request for testers. ubuntustudio-controls to be updated for 18.10 to..."
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On April 7, 2018, the Ubuntu Studio Development Team met. Among the items discussed were the following:

- Looking into changing or adding wallpaper for 18.04
- Install-time package selection bug fixed, request for testers.
- ubuntustudio-controls to be updated for 18.10 to add the following features:
  - set cpu governor, turn on/off Intel Boost
  - choose audio device
  - run jack from session start (or not)
  - hotplugging USB mics selecting a non-standard set of outputs for pulse-jack bridging
  - Using more than one audio device even if internal
  - bridging ALSA midi to jack midi
  - a “Safely remove USB Audio Device” button
  - Future improvements to include tabs for video use or graphics setups.

- Change in default Desktop Environment, or adding a Desktop Environment selection at install time is being considered for 18.10. Those discussed included
  - Gnome Shell
  - KDE Plasma
  - MATE

- Adaptation of Ubuntu MATE welcome app for Ubuntu Studio is being considered for 18.10, would replace “ubuntustudio-installer”.

Anyone who can, please install the latest Daily ISO to test the install-time package selection. This is our final push to the RC on April 19th, so we need to find the bugs and get them gone.

A special thanks to all those who have tested and filed bug reports so far! We couldn’t do this without you!

#### One comment

1. I am all for a new DE, XFCE belongs to 2008 not 2018 I was always a KDE fanboi, more C++ than objective-C Apple what? Why isn’t there a webkit UI? How about a “snap” that runs on a chromebook? I <3 KDE on FreeBSD [Log in to Reply](https://ubuntustudio.org/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fubuntustudio.org%2F2018%2F04%2Fubuntu-studio-development-meeting-april-7-2018%2F)

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