Fedora and OpenSuse Linux drop Unity interface efforts

[Fred A. Miller]

On 02/18/2011 07:23 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>
>     Ubuntu 11.04, or Natty Narwhal, remains the only desktop Linux
>     distribution to offer the new Unity interface in the near future
>
> Canonical made quite a splash last fall when it announced that the
> Unity interface used in its Ubuntu Netbook Edition would become the
> default interface
> <http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/208818/is_unity_the_right_interface_for_desktop_ubuntu.html>
> in the Linux distribution's desktop version as well beginning with
> version 11.04, or Natty Narwhal.
> ...........
> Fedora's Williamson, for example, wrote
> <http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/02/14/unity-poulsbo-important-things-update/>
> on Monday that he has "had little time or inclination for doing much
> with Unity/Poulsbo. "Unity is still stuck on this bug
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3138858&group_id=67586&atid=523276>
> that the upstream maintainer promised to look at after Christmas (I
> last submitted a requested change on Jan 25 and it's been crickets
> since)," he explained, noting that his work on the effort has been
> entirely voluntary. "If I had the inclination I could have set up a
> side repo to carry on building stuff, or bugged AJAX to include the
> patch anyway. I just haven't."
> ............................
> Nelson Marques of the OpenSUSE project, meanwhile, has encountered
> similar obstacles. "Packaging Unity wasn't much of a problem, but
> implementing is being translated into frustration," Marques wrote in a
> blog post
> <http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/02/15/abandoning-unity-for-the-time-being/>
> on Tuesday. That "and the lack of satisfactory results eventually lead
> to pre-burnout situations, and I'm not walking that road."
>
> Marques cited problems he encountered as part of his frustration,
> including "Compiz behavior on several different git snapshots" as well
> as "the default gconf settings required by Unity and the
> backup/restore operations from OpenSuse defaults." (Compiz is the
> window manager that will be used by default alongside Unity in Natty
> Narwhal.)
>
> "It's maybe wiser to wait for a bit more of development from upstream
> before looking into this," Marques concluded. "OpenSuse is supposed to
> be stable and reliable, and I don't see this branch of Compiz match
> those two qualities yet."
>
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/fedora-and-opensuse-linux-drop-unity-interface-efforts-125
>

'Sounds like a LOT of Ubuntu users aren't going to want to upgrade. So
far, there's nothing compelling in the next release for me to want to
have problems created by not the best development team. It does appear
that Canonical has made a mistake in it's choice of making Unity it's
standard.

Fred

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