Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

2014-05-16 Thread Iain Lane
Steve, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 05:23:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Iain, […] Instead of a separate seed branch for this, I recommend making this part of the standard Ubuntu seeds at lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu.utopic. I don't see any reason that we

Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

2014-05-16 Thread Bryan Quigley
Would systemd be used in this new seed from the start? Thanks, Bryan On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Iain Lane la...@ubuntu.com wrote: Steve, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 05:23:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Iain, […] Instead of a separate seed branch for

Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

2014-05-16 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 05/16/2014 11:07 AM, Bryan Quigley wrote: Would systemd be used in this new seed from the start? Definitely not from the start, since the existing Unity 8 session management relies on upstart. That's not to say it would not make a good candidate for experimenting with the switch to

Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

2014-05-14 Thread Michael Hall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/14/2014 12:09 PM, Iain Lane wrote: - I feel like the name ubuntu-unity8 isn't very good, because that's the name of a piece of software already so it could get confusing. I thought of ubuntu-touch-desktop, but bikeshedding (meant in a nice

Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

2014-05-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 14 May 2014 17:15, Stephen M. Webb stephen.w...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/14/2014 12:09 PM, Iain Lane wrote: The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (ish, we don't plan to have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which

Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

2014-05-14 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 14/05/2014 18:58, Dimitri John Ledkov a écrit : As far as I understand: installation media (.iso) ability to run live-session of said image defaulting to unity8. Plus the default packageset would be different, e.g. converged apps would be pre-installed / available. Mostly what Dimitri

Re: A new Unity 8 flavour

2014-05-14 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 14/05/2014 18:09, Iain Lane a écrit : The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (ish, we don't plan to have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for the touch project. Hey Iain, Thanks for