Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

[Robert Ancell]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le 15/04/2014 04:32, Robert Ancell a écrit :
>> With 14.04 wrapping up it's time to start thinking about what we can
>> do with the desktop post LTS. I think there's one big theme we need to
>> focus on - Convergence. All the Unity 8 goodness that is going into
>> the phone / tablet builds is coming our way and we need to be prepared
>> for that migration.
>>
>> Put screensaver management into the shell.
> In normal sessions g-s is not running anymore
Aha, I hadn't rebooted since then. Cross that one off the list!

>>
>> Put PolicyKit handling into the shell.
>> We use policykit-gnome for the dialogs but GNOME uses the shell for
>> this. We should be doing the same. A nice to have would be to
>> implement this in both Unity 7 and Unity 8 but as long as it is there
>> by convergence then we're good to go.
> Having them in the shell would probably make sense. Did we have a design
> for those? IIRC, at the different of GNOME, we wanted them more like
> "normal dialogs" (e.g not doing the "dim the screen/grab focus/be in the
> middle locking everything else"). If that's the case we might want to
> keep the -gnome version for unity7 (since the shell is not using an "app
> toolkit").
No idea about designs, needs following up.

>> Gut unity-settings-daemon
> Right, a lot of that is going to require the MIR/new services to work/be
> used on desktop though.
Yes

>> Make Ubuntu System Settings [1] desktop capable
> That item is similar to the previous one. We also need desktop designs
> for ubuntu-system-settings.
Yes, but this one we can only switch as default once all the
functionality is complete. At least with u-s-d we can do it in parts.

So, I think in summary: Lots of leaning on mpt/design :)