<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 April 2014 07:47, Martin Pitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.pitt@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">martin.pitt@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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It's a much bigger and urgent problem to be able to provide a<br>
phone/desktop image which can work with click apps and image based<br>
upgrades but at the same time allows you to install classic Ubuntu<br>
packages. That problem is never going to go away, so solving that<br>
seems much more urgent to me.<br></blockquote></div></div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br></div><div>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. <br>
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