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+Ubuntu Devs Propose Creating Separate ‘Unity 8 Desktop’ Flavor to Aid Development
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+**The creation of a new Ubuntu flavour based on Unity 8 has been put forward by the Ubuntu Desktop Team.**
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+Developer Iain Lane, who outlined the proposal on the team’s mailing list, says the addition of such a spin would allow developers and enthusiasts alike ‘to figure out the work that’s required to make a desktop product based on th[e] software usable’.
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+Lane writes:
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+> “The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (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.”
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+### ‘Default by Ubuntu 16.04’ ###
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+The potential boons for an experimental distro at this juncture are evident.
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+Canonical aims to reuse the same code from the phone and tablet versions of Ubuntu on the PC, albeit with a more traditional desktop guise, as part of their drive towards ‘convergence’.
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+But with Unity 8 still under active development on both phone and tablet form factors — both of which have hardware releases looming — it’s understandable that major progress on shaping the PC face has been fairly slow.
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+> ‘The boon of testing images of Unity 8 for regular PCs seems an astute proposal’
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+Ubuntu 14.04 LTS offers developers the chance to toy with a snapshot of tablet work through an installable Unity 8 desktop session that can be installed alongside the incumbent version, albeit with a few caveats.
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+In creating a dedicated Unity 8 desktop image many of the limitations of the installable session would be alleviated. Not only would a live session make testing more accessible through a live USB or CD, but should also allow a wider range of experimentation and testing free from the pressures of affecting regular desktop users.
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+A [blueprint][1] for the project says that the image (.iso) of the new spin ‘should become the default one by 16.04.’
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+With most engineering effort still being put toward bringing the mobile iterations up to spec, the current Compiz-based version (Unity 7, described as ‘in maintenance’ by developer) is likely to remain default on the desktop builds for the foreseeable future.
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+Transitioning over to Unity 8 on the desktop also depends on timeframes for Mir, Canonical’s in-house display server/display protocol. With [optimistic forecasts on its desktop debut long since ceded to reality][2], more definite plans remain largely ambiguous or unannounced. There, work on supporting traditional desktop workflows in Mir – such as handling window compositing, task switching and multi-monitor setups – remains in the early stages, making the benefit of testing images for regular PCs seem, again, a rather astute proposal.
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+How best to handle “click packages” (these are the custom runtime framework Unity 8/Mir apps use); whether resources to support ‘another flavour’ are available; and what name such a project should use are among the questions up for discussion.
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+via: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/05/ubuntu-unity-8-desktop-flavour-discussed
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+[1]:https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1410-unity8-desktop-iso
+[2]:http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/mir-default-display-server-ubuntu-2016
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