Shotwell and Chromium in, a few changes in the application line up of Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat

After the release of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, Ubuntu developers are all buckled up for Maverick Meerkat. In the Ubuntu Developer summit, developers have come up with some slight changes in the application line up for Maverick. Replacement of F-Spot with Shotwell and Chromium as default browser in UNE are the major decisions.

We had already told you about a few major contendors for the place of default photo manager in Lucid. But this quest has ended with the decision being made in favour of shotwell. Other than F-spot being replaced with Shotwell, there are no big changes in the default applications - default media and music players persist, no changes in OpenOffice, although we may see one or two new additions to the game collection.

Another big change is Chromium replacing Firefox as default browser in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition. Ubuntu developers are paying a lot of attention to every detail in UNE. Introduction of global menu and windicators to save the screen space and now Chromium dethroning the mighty Firefox as a default browser choice in UNE.

Although there have been some issues with Chromium - non-native look, printing etc, so developers have decided to keep it as default at least till the 3rd alpha release and based upon the results, final decision will be made.

Source: omgubuntu