Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

On 16 April 2014 07:47, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> It's a much bigger and urgent problem to be able to provide a
> phone/desktop image which can work with click apps and image based
> upgrades but at the same time allows you to install classic Ubuntu
> packages. That problem is never going to go away, so solving that
> seems much more urgent to me.
>

That sounds like a dangerous idea to me. To my mind, Ubuntu needs to have
two different desktops for quite some time. One is the Desktop install,
which is primarily for PCs. The other is the desktop that you can use when
you dock your phone. The PC-desktop (for lack of anything better) should
contain the apps we're used to; Nautilus, Rhythmbox, Transmission, etc. On
the phone, we should have apps that does the job beautifully when running
as a phone, but also not too shabby when running as a desktop. In other
words; the PC Desktop needs to be the best PC desktop there is. The Phone
desktop does not.

The Phone needs to be compatible with the desktop, but the desktop doesn't
have to be identical with the phone. Because the phone will act as a
desktop, but the desktop will never act as a phone. That's something I hope
everyone remembers. Let the phone be the future of Ubuntu Desktops, but
don't merge them too soon. That would most likely have some seriously nasty
side effects. If the phone desktop can start to compete with the PC desktop
by April 2016, I will be impressed, but I think that's a good goal. I think
16.10 is the proper time to unite the images.
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