The sad reality is that they screwed up ubuntu with unity. Given the fact that time for maintaining and developing qgis is scarce, we certainly want to optimize it. Investing it on solving problems related to a desktop that is not good, is, in my opinion, a waste of precious time. Getting rid of unitiy is not difficult, actually involves much less time than solving the problems created by unity. And you'll be happier without unity in general. As in the case of Dennis M. Linton, unity is making many ubuntu users to even switch to another distribution. Few weeks ago I raised my concern on this regard as I think that linux users of qgis could make things easier if we could take a concerted decision. Of course, there would be no compulsory distribution, but if we could reach some consensus to which developers and packagers would pay special attention, it would be great.
I collected opinions on this regard few weeks ago and I ought a summary to the list. I apologize but I'm really overwhelmed and have not even taken my own decision, keeping ubuntu 10.04 (the best ever) on one machine and 11.08 on another. But will raise this point shortly again. Agus 2012/6/14 Jake Maier <[email protected]>: >> Agreed - but many Unity users might not, so it should at least work as >> expected... >> >> Most newcomers to linux will most probably use Unity as it's the >> default desktop of the most popular distro for first-time linux users >> (I think). > [JM] > Exactly. That's my situation. It's very confusing with all the different > versions and so far I liked what I saw, using Unity as it comes by default. > I wanted to get more knowledgeable first before I install possibly even more > confusion :) > J > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
