[desktop] ubuntu-docs branch ready for yakkety

[Hannie Dumoleyn]

Hello Doug,
Thanks for the useful information. Could you please let me know how you 
installed 16.10? Was it in a virtual machine, or straight on your 
laptop/desktop on a separate partition?
At this moment I have a triple boot system (Trusty/Xenial/Windows10). I 
am not sure if I can install Yakkety next to these 3 OSes.
Hannie

Op 03-07-16 om 06:20 schreef Doug Smythies:
> On 2016.06.27 08:15 Hannie Dumoleyn wrote:
>> Op 20-06-16 om 16:40 schreef Hannie Dumoleyn:
>>> Op 20-06-16 om 15:22 schreef Ian Nicholson:
>>>> On 06/20/2016 05:47 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, Lyz and Stephen,
>>>>> I have just installed the Unity 8 preview and made a first exploration
>>>>> tour. Although it is far from perfect (system settings, web browser
>>>>> etc.
>>>>> do not work), it gives me the opportunity to do some research.
>>>>> Hannie
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Hannie,
>>>> I'd like to help with the Unity8 docs, is there a group of people
>>>> collaborating or are you just doing it on your own?  If you are doing
>>>> it on your own, would you be open to collaborating?
>>>> Ian
>>> Hello Ian,
>>> Thanks for your kind offer. I was just going to ask on the list who
>>> wants to help. What we can do is the following. You, me, and other
>>> team members who want to help, can start by installing the Unity 8
>>> preview (sudo apt install unity8-desktop-session-mir) and explore it.
>>> Since it is very different from Unity 7 I suggest we start a whole new
>>> chapter from scratch.
>>> At the moment it does not work too well in Xenial 16.04.1, but it is a
>>> beginning.
> It didn't work on my 16.04 LapTop either.
> Then I looked around at some references, and got the impression that no
> it doesn't work on 16.04 desktops.
>
> So I installed the daily iso for 16.10, and then it sort of works.
>
>>> We can try to gather as much information on Unity 8 as we
>>> can get and share it.
>>> Greets,
>>> Hannie
>> (June 27) To all our team members who are interested in helping to write
>> documentation for Unity 8:
>> About a week ago I wrote to our list, and to Ian, that I wanted to start
>> gathering information and test Unity 8 on my desktop. I did not get it
>> working well, so I filed a bug on June 22, see
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8-desktop-session/+bug/1595238.
>> I am still waiting patiently to see if anyone can help me get System
>> Settings, Browser and Terminal work so I can get on with my exploration.
> My experience on a 16.04 machine was the same as yours.
> Now, on the 16.10 machine, the browser and system settings work, but
> I can not figure out how to get a terminal window. I even installed
> a command line app from the app store, but I don't know where it went.
> At least I can't find it. Another app called "terminal" always gave me
> a download error.
>
> Note: my LAN connection is hardwired, I never gave my wi-fi access password.
> I can also check from another computer using ssh, after installing openssh-server
> while running the normal desktop stuff.
>
>> In the meantime, I want to know if gathering information on Unity 8 and
>> publish it in a shared document, or send it to this list, is a good
>> idea. So far, I have not got any reaction on the above emails.
> I do not know. Actually, I do not intend to get involved in documentation
> for Unity 8, but am willing to get involved in the desktop docs infrastructure
> changes needed to accommodate it.
>
>> Hannie
> ... Doug
>
> References:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2323279&page=9&p=13509081#post13509081
> https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/stable-phone-overlay
>
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