My own look at the new Breezy preview

[jdong]

What about extras?

Extras, due to legal shadiness and lack of official-level quality (otherwise they'd be in universe/multiverse) are not endorsed or supported official by Ubuntu, and therefore cannot make their way into sources.list officially.

[poofyhairguy]

Extras, due to legal shadiness and lack of official-level quality (otherwise they'd be in universe/multiverse) are not endorsed or supported official by Ubuntu, and therefore cannot make their way into sources.list officially.

Thats cool. There is still this:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=64629

[jdodson]

Thats cool. There is still this:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=64629

Wow, nice.

[dahli.llama]

Does Breezy fix the multiple sound sources problem from Hoary?

That is the only problem I'm having right now and it's not much of one. I cannot get sounds from City o Heroes played with Cedega to play at the same time as music from Beep. I've tried every solution mentioned on this site, but nothing seems to work.

If Breezy fixes that I will be a very happy camper.

[macgyver2]

GNOME 2.12's better anti-focus-stealing notification (the taskbar button now pulsates slowly instead of just brightening -- less likely to be ignored)

That way that's done just looks excellent!

The Update Manager has a notification bubble that deserves a look.

When I first saw this I thought "yikes, how did windows update get on here!"

gnome-app-install is now nearly complete enough to replace Synaptic for most day-to-day use, even boasting a search engine.

IMO this is a really big deal. I think it pretty much gets rid of one of the reasons why some first-time Linux users don't want to switch. In the past while showing Ubuntu to potential new-users we've gotten to how to install stuff...a lot still found Synaptic a bit confusing because in the lists of packages there was all sorts of stuff they shouldn't need to be concerned with (library packages, application data-packages, and so on). I'll have to show them this...I think they'll like how there's not the same clutter as in Synaptic.

GNOME menus instantly receive new application entries, without restarting GNOME or zapping gnome-panel and losing a bunch of notification icons!

Hmm...in Hoary, new application entries always showed up instantly for me. The only thing was that the icon didn't appear until after a restart...the icons just showed up as the little no-icon rectangle.

[jdong]

Hmm...in Hoary, new application entries always showed up instantly for me. The only thing was that the icon didn't appear until after a restart...the icons just showed up as the little no-icon rectangle.

Actually, only GNOME/GTK specific items would show up immediately, icon-less. Try to install a QT app or an otherwise GNOME/FDo-unaware app, and it takes restarting gnome-panel (lose tray icons) or a logout to show up.