Fedora and OpenSuse Linux drop Unity interface efforts

[Ari Torhamo]

pe, 2011-02-18 kello 22:09 -0500, Fred A. Miller kirjoitti:
> 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 in the Linux distribution's desktop version as
> > well beginning with version 11.04, or Natty Narwhal.
> > ...........
> > Fedora's Williamson, for example, wrote on Monday that he has "had
> > little time or inclination for doing much with Unity/Poulsbo. "Unity
> > is still stuck on this bug 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 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. 

Yes, although we shouldn't completely close out the remote and unlikely
possibility that the Ubuntu developers know something that you don't ;-)

-Ari-