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I have grown used to Unity. Now they are stopping development on it? I checked immediately if this was dated April 1st...so this true? I decided to stick with
by bigpeopleareold 10y ago
I have grown used to Unity. Now they are stopping development on it? I checked immediately if this was dated April 1st...so this true?
I decided to stick with Unity because hit the sweet-spot for me when it comes to the functionality I actually want in a desktop environment. I was not happy with GNOME 3, nor KDE, nor any other desktop environment I tried. Now Canonical is pulling this again?
I just hope that there will be a UUbuntu flavour for the 18.04 release.
Next up ... will Mir be killed off too? ;) (Whoops ... didn't see that they are killing Mir too... :))
- rch 10y ago> By switching to GNOME, Canonical is also giving up on Mir and moving to the Wayland display server, another contender for replacing the X window system. Given the separate development paths of Mir and Wayland, "we have no real choice but to use Wayland when Ubuntu switches to GNOME by default," Hall told Ars. "Using Mir simply isn't an option we have."
- phkahler 10y agoThis is the one part of the announcement that is a clear benefit. MIR has always been unique to Ubuntu and a waste of effort. If they put even half of the resources behind Wayland and Gnome, the remaining issues with them should get resolved quickly.
- tracker1 10y agoKilling off Mir would probably be a good idea as well, and just tracking back to Wayland... I also really liked Unity a lot, not as much as the windows start/taskbar, but more than mac's dock. Hopefully they can do the canonical magic with Gnome 3, without too much reinvention this time.
- bigpeopleareold 10y agoI wished they focused Unity development on Wayland. Without knowing too much, Mir never seemed like a real differentiator.
- bigpeopleareold 10y agoI just installed Ubuntu GNOME desktop and I started to think that it can safely replace Unity for me. :)