[ubuntu-za] Heard the news: end of unity

[Anton May]

An update from System76 side
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/system76-new-era-ubuntu-desktop

On 10 Apr 2017 20:12, "Simon Cross" <hodgestar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm fairly happy with the announcement.
>
> I've been using Unity for ages but I've tried Gnome Shell a couple of
> times and found it quite similar to Unity in many ways. The Gnome
> project have been doing some great things recently (e.g. flatpak) and
> since the announcement I've installed Gnome Shell on my personal
> laptop and found it slicker and less resource heavy than it used to be
> (and I've now switched over entirely).
>
> The unified interface and more open tablets and phones was a grand
> idea and it would have been great if it'd worked out, but there are
> lots of significant obstacles (mostly outside of writing the software)
> and I'm excited to see Canonical re-focus their resources on other
> projects.
>
> The more open phones and tablets dream is being carried on by others
> (Taizen, Sailfish, etc) and Gnome will continue to evolve Gnome Shell.
>
> All in all, it doesn't seem like a bad outcome for the community as a
> whole. Canonical tried something, it didn't work out but it stimulated
> the ecosystem and the Linux desktop experience is probably better as a
> result.
>
> Schiavo
> Simon
>
> --
> ubuntu-za mailing list
> ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-za/attachments/20170411/8eeba140/attachment.html>