A new "Unity 8" flavour

[Stephen M. Webb]

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On 05/14/2014 12:09 PM, Iain Lane wrote:
> 
> The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (ish, we don't plan to have any formal releases at this point) of
> Ubuntu which contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for the touch
> project.
> 
> The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use to figure out the work that's required to
> make a desktop product based on this software usable, and to create a space for experimentation to figure out the
> best ways of carrying out the required integration. We still plan to migrate pieces of the current desktop over,
> but we are very mindful of the need to not destabilise the desktop and upset its users, and are hopeful that
> developing this flavour in parallel will mean that migrations will truly happen when software is ready instead of 
> as a result of pressure to get work into the hands of users early.

Just out of curiosity, what does creating a new flavour deliver that is not already available simply by installing the
Unity 8 desktop session from the archives?

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Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb at canonical.com>
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