Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

[Marco Trevisan]

Il giorno mer, 16/04/2014 alle 10.25 +1200, Robert Ancell ha scritto:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Le 15/04/2014 04:32, Robert Ancell a écrit :
> >> With 14.04 wrapping up it's time to start thinking about what we can
> >> do with the desktop post LTS. I think there's one big theme we need to
> >> focus on - Convergence. All the Unity 8 goodness that is going into
> >> the phone / tablet builds is coming our way and we need to be prepared
> >> for that migration.
> >>
> >> Put screensaver management into the shell.
> > In normal sessions g-s is not running anymore
> Aha, I hadn't rebooted since then. Cross that one off the list!

Indeed, BTW as said we still use the gnome-screensaver as fallback in
case that some a11y features are on (namely, screen keyboard and screen
reader), not because they are not supported by unity7, but because of
some bugs ([1] and [2]) that we got and that we preferred not to include
in an LTS.
So, we still should keep in the list the plan for fixing these issues in
order to remove any need of g-s for good.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1304111
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1303917