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title: This Week in Lubuntu Development POUND9
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Here is the ninth issue of This Week in Lubuntu Development. You can read the last issue [here](https://lubuntu.me/this-week-in-lubuntu-development-8/).
This is the ninth issue of The Lubuntu Development Newsletter. You can read the last issue [here](https://lubuntu.me/this-week-in-lubuntu-development-8/).
NOTICE
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## General
We've been polishing the desktop more, but work has been blocked by the still ongoing Qt transition.
The 16.04 to 18.04 upgrade has now been enabled! Please do let us know if there's any issues. [Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdQIzyscGw) a video we made when 17.04 went End of Life; the instructions are still current.
Our main developer, Simon Quigley, [became an Ubuntu Core Developer](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-August/040436.html) this past Monday! He now has access to the entire Ubuntu archive.
### Desktop Experience
- We have split the Qt style plugins into separate binary packages. This will eventually result in us not shipping the broken Blackberry style, for example, by default.
- For WiFi connection editing using nm-tray, we now use QTerminal. Long term, this will be a native Qt dialog, but it's getting close for this cycle.
- The LXQt Panel spacer plugin now has an autoexpansion option, like in LXDE.
### Calamares
### Miscellaneous
- We wrote a Calamares module called `automirror` which will automatically select an Ubuntu mirror based on your geographic location. We are working on upstreaming this for other distributions to use.
- A minimum password strength is now enforced. This is to help promote secure passwords and prevent easy brute force attacks. We're going to be strengthening this as time goes on.
- Calamares [adds](https://phab.lubuntu.me/rCALASETTINGSa2e6868a2a61c4e15770cc965c0b4b001c332e81) the user to less groups by default. This fixes various issues and makes Lubuntu more consistent with other flavors.
## Infrastructure and Project Changes
### Lubuntu is switching to Wayland
Lubuntu will be switching to Wayland by default for 20.10.
We are going to do this by porting Openbox to use the Mir [display server](https://mir-server.io/), Drew DeVault's [QtLayerShell](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/qtlayershell), and other associated bits.
**Q:** Why are you switching to Wayland?
**A:** The X implementation is old and won't be updated to address the way desktop Linux is used today. Window managers are an afterthought, and many things aren't implemented correctly. Wayland is a modern take on the Linux display system.
**Q:** What about people with NVIDIA graphics cards?
**A:** More details to solve, but the plan is to get this working with those graphics cards by that time.
**Q:** I thought Mir was abandoned when the Ubuntu Touch platform was dropped?
**A:** Mir survived, and still has a team of Canonical employees working on it.
More details to come; feel free to leave comments below.
### Miscellaneous
As always, feedback is appreciated.
# Bugs
## Incoming / Fix needed
- [xdg user-dirs not being read/stored correctly for desktop icon in left panel](https://pad.lv/1768961)
- Filed upstream: [Error when using a non-start disk for location of personal files.](https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/1389)
- ["Format" partition edit option appears to keep reverting to "Keep"](https://pad.lv/1773610)
- [Custom partition mount point not kept with "OK"; kept with <Enter>](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/1773608)
- [sddm will not start lxqt desktop correctly](https://pad.lv/1781392)
## Solved
## Want to help?
# Want to help?
One of the easiest ways to get involved with Lubuntu and help us make this release the best one yet is to test Lubuntu and report bugs.
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We have [a Weblate instance](https://translate.lubuntu.me/projects/) available for translations. Right now there are not many strings to translate, but as time goes on, we will add more.
This week, Henrik Christiansen helped us translate Calamares into Danish. Thank you!
Do you speak a language that isn't available to translate there? Let us know in the comments or [elsewhere](https://lubuntu.me/links/) and we will add that language.
Here are the translators who have contributed so far:
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- The beginnings of a welcome center (more details to come).
- Calamares polish, including an additional module for more packages to be installed.
- A plan for replacing Openbox, the current window manager used in Lubuntu.
Our artwork team is still working on Lenny, and we'll let you know when we have Lenny Cuttlefish. :)
# In the Press
This section is for highlighting exceptional Lubuntu coverage since the last issue.
Did you find any other exceptional stories about Lubuntu? [Let us know](https://lubuntu.me/links/) and we'll be happy to include them here.
Did you find any exceptional stories about Lubuntu? [Let us know](https://lubuntu.me/links/) and we'll be happy to include them here.
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