Elementary OS Luna: when already?

Original author: Elementary OS Team
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Question: when will the Elementary OS Luna come out? The answer is the classic “When it's ready”.


Elementary OS does not have a clear release cycle. Other systems, such as Ubuntu, decided to release the system at a specific time each year. But we decided that the release will be when we reach all goals and do not leave tangible bugs in the system.
Please note: luna is actively developing. When you finish reading this article, it may already be out of date. You can see the dwindling list of our tasks on launchpad .

The foundation


Branding

Luna is built on top of Ubuntu. This greatly facilitates our work, because a lot of it has already been done by Canonical and the Ubuntu community. But sometimes we accidentally inherit their brand.

Granite

Our framework has to solve several small issues - including for more efficient use of system resources and better support for internationalization.

Download and Login



Before you get to the desktop, you must go through the process of downloading and entering the system (K.O. - approx. Translator) . Need a good theme for Plymouth (system boot) and login (LightDM). The design for Plymouth is drawn, but it still needs to be written. But for LightDM there are only a few minor fixes.

Desktop




Design


The Elementary GTK theme has changed a lot since the Elementary OS Jupiter. Already better, but we have a few more ideas. We plan to release another major release before the Luna release .

Wallpaper is already officially accepted .

Wingpanel


WingPanel has not changed much, although several bugs remain related to multiple monitors and hot keys.

Slingshot


Slingshot is an application to launch other applications.

Plank


Our Plank dock is based on Docky with a few changes for Elementary. Now we just have to test Drag & Drop and fix some bugs.

Switchboard


Switchboard is an application to configure the system and its most important part.

Applications


Files


Files - this is the file manager Elementary OS (approx. Translator - it is also called marlin) is developing well. Having laid it out just 3 months ago, we received more than a hundred error messages and several suggestions.

Terminal


The terminal has not changed much. There are several shortcut errors .

Scratch


Scratch is a text editor that has already acquired the status of stable (recently there was a release). There are a few mistakes . The next version is likely to appear soon.

Maya


(comment translator, co. - Mayan calendar?)
Maya is also one of the new applications that first appeared in Luna. It needs to be tested more thoroughly, but for now, we leave it that way, improving support for internationalization.

Noise


Noise is an essential part of Luna. In Jupiter, it did not seem to us that at least one of the players fit well in the Elementary OS. By creating Noise, we solved this problem radically. But while we are doing it, he has a lot of errors that need to be fixed before the release.

Midori


Although the Midori development release is independent of Elementary OS (like many other browsers, they release a new release every few months), there are a few things that we would like to see in Midori in Luna.

Public beta


After all these questions are closed, we can release the first beta release. This will be a much wider testing phase, and it will be closer to release. If the beta test goes well and all problems are resolved, we will release a release candidate and, finally, a release.

How can you help?




Bug search

Since we are an open source project, the source code of each application is available for download, modification, distribution. We are open for any help and will always accept bug fixes from developers.

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