Hi, I thought it would be good to keep everyone in the loop with the current status of Unity and it's migration over to using Compiz.
Obviously the main question is "When can I get it?", and we've had a couple of blockers on that which the team has been working on frantically to fix up: - The new code wasn't in-tree to the old Unity, as we need to switch build-systems from automake over to CMake to make building everything work correctly. We're currently working on this and making good progress. This ensures we can keep using lp:unity without having to lose the history of Unity due to the move to Compiz. It also means we build everything in one place, which is what is ideal for packaging and getting it into archive (no need for new packages!). - The code of the new plugin was using bits of the main Unity code so the whole thing was intertwined. With the work mentioned above, this is also being resolved. - We switched to GSettings and GDBus for newer parts of the code and that had interesting side effects on the older code, this has been resolved. - You need to have skills in magic to build it (this is also being resolved for us mere humans). Before, the moons needed to align, now, you'll just need to make; make install. There are some other bits and pieces too, but I think we'll get to them by the end of the week/early next week. I'll make sure that we have good build instructions at the same time as landing it in lp:unity, so those of you who are brave can test it out before packages become available. Thanks for bearing with us, hopefully it won't be for much longer! -- Neil Jagdish Patel | Technical Lead Desktop Experience Team Canonical 27 Floor, Millbank Tower London SW1P 4QP Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings www.canonical.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
