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elastic
2017-04-05, 17:24
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/
kinggo
2017-04-05, 17:50
not that people were not telling them for years that they are wasting time........and resources. Next, ditch Mir and snaps and we are back to 10.04. :rolleyes:
Jedibeeftrix
2017-04-05, 19:48
wow, kde kirigami is all thats left.
ajalkane
2017-04-05, 21:20
not that people were not telling them for years that they are wasting time........and resources. Next, ditch Mir and snaps and we are back to 10.04. :rolleyes:

Snaps stay, Mir is ditched.

Good call IMO. And Ubuntu Phone was at least in my view dead-end with the "Apple-like" restrictions and weirdness they bolted on top of normal Linux ecosystem.

I will miss Unity, as I'm I guess one of the rare breeds who found it a good UI. I won't miss Ubuntu Touch, except as far as it was committed to open-source.
juiceme
2017-04-06, 04:52
I wont miss unity, I have been running cairo-dock on top of it for years :D
panjgoori
2017-04-06, 05:48
Well i like Unity and still my default DE in Ubuntu. They are planning on Switching to Gnome and i dont like Gnome at all.
handaxe
2017-04-06, 08:16
Well i like Unity and still my default DE in Ubuntu.

Me too. Indeed, there likely are many who came to appreciate the Unity desktop as different yet very productive. Critics - and they are entitled to be so - tend to have the loudest voices.
romu
2017-04-06, 09:26
...They are planning on Switching to Gnome and i dont like Gnome at all.

Source?

For some work, I've switched from Fedora to macOS, what a nightmare!! After few weeks, I find Gnome way more efficient than macOS.
nthn
2017-04-06, 09:45
Source?

For some work, I've switched from Fedora to macOS, what a nightmare!! After few weeks, I find Gnome way more efficient than macOS.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/

We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
nthn
2017-04-06, 09:49
Well i like Unity and still my default DE in Ubuntu. They are planning on Switching to Gnome and i dont like Gnome at all.

I'm sure they'll enable a couple of extensions by default or even write some new ones to replicate the way Unity worked.
elastic
2017-04-06, 10:19
Good call IMO. And Ubuntu Phone was at least in my view dead-end with the "Apple-like" restrictions and weirdness they bolted on top of normal Linux

Well, I started to like UT in the last couple of months and the way it took started to look promising - less restrictions, redevelopment of the scopes, good 3rd party improvements, DAV, ...
It's been the same with FFOS - the moment it started to be kind of usable they ditched it - I'm wondering if Google is paying them out before they can become a real alternative ;-) :cool:

But apart from liking a UI or not it's still a pity that another OpenSource OS is vanishing (well at least it's just another one on top of an Android base but ...) - maybe a few devs can be attracted by SFOS ... - now let's see how far KDE will come ...
dubliner
2017-04-07, 08:13
maybe a few devs can be attracted by SFOS ...

I am one of those who actually had high hopes for the Ubuntu Phone at the beginning. So, I bought the Aquaris E4.5 as well as the M10 tablet.

It would be wonderful to have SFOS ported to these devices in particular. What better invitation to the Ubuntu devs to join SFOS development could there be? :cool:

Alas, I completely lack the skills to pull this off. But maybe someone else could look into this? Having SFOS on the Aquaris M10 tablet would be wonderful. ;)
Amboss
2017-04-07, 13:59
Snaps stay, Mir is ditched

I wish, they would ditch snaps and the alike, too. I find it so contrary to the whole linux architecture and more Windows alike (I'm talking install the 25th revision of .net 4.x when installing an application).

I must have missed the Mir thing. Have to check news on that. Not that I wouldn't like it.
theonelaw
2017-04-08, 16:24
I am one of those who actually had high hopes for the Ubuntu Phone at the beginning. So, I bought the Aquaris E4.5 as well as the M10 tablet.

It would be wonderful to have SFOS ported to these devices in particular. What better invitation to the Ubuntu devs to join SFOS development could there be? :cool:

Alas, I completely lack the skills to pull this off. But maybe someone else could look into this? Having SFOS on the Aquaris M10 tablet would be wonderful. ;)

You and me both, I have long wondered if my E5 could do it,
but both yours and mine run on Mediatek chips.

I do see this, however:
https://github.com/mbgg/linux-mediatek
mikecomputing
2017-04-08, 16:50
Lunduke talks about canonical dishing unity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBg_TqSgHE