On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 09:15 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 09:06 -0400, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > > Hi Asmo > > > > On 26/10/2010 04:59, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > > > what we can expect from this Unity thing for simple LTSP users like me? > > > > The plan is to have decent 2D fallback modes before it gets implemented. > > If your thin clients have 3D acceleration, performance will actually be > > better than a 2D desktop on LTSP. > > Indeed, and I talked to most of the Unity team here in Orlando and they > promised to fix any issue that we see on thin clients. We should just > make sure to test it early in the cycle to leave them time to fix it. > > As the new Unity uses compiz instead of mutter and compiz works fine on > thin clients with supported network cards. So my guess is that for > recent Intel/ATI based thin clients, we'll probably be able to run > Unity, for the rest, we'll get a good old gnome desktop.
Obviously I was meaning to say "with support video cards", I guess I'm bad at multi-tasking today as I'm attending a session on improving the network stack :) > In real deployments, my guess is that you'll either have Unity working > everywhere and use it or force everyone to the old interface. Switching > should be as easy as a gconf key or a XDG desktop session. > > > > > > "Shuttleworth identified multitouch support as a very high priority for > > > Unity." > > > > > > "Unity will be at the heart of the ambitious Ubuntu 11.04 roadmap. Due > > > to the enormous magnitude of the changes that it will bring to the > > > Ubuntu desktop, it will likely be a major focus of discussion this week > > > at the Ubuntu Developer Summit." > > > > > > http://www.linuxonline.ca/?q=node/225 > > > > > > Multitouch in thin clients - really ;-) > > > > Sure, why not. If the hardware supports it, then the software should too :) > > > We won't need to do any work to get multitouch working. As the actual > hardware support is built-in X, all events will be sent to the X clients > including utouch. So if you have hardware with multi-touch capability > (new Asus EEEtop maybe support it ?) they should work fine. > > > > > -Jonathan > > > > So all in all, I'm not overly worried about the switch to Unity by > default as long as we make sure to test it early on and make sure the > relevant blacklists are updated for hardware that won't work (I'm > thinking of VIA based and ION based thin clients mostly). > -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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