Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-23 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Ancell wrote on 15/04/14 23:25: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Sebastien Bacher > > ... >> >> Le 15/04/2014 04:32, Robert Ancell a écrit : > ... >>> >>> Put PolicyKit handling into the shell. We use policykit-gnome >>> for the dialog

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-20 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > I want to remind everyone that Microsoft _had to_ switch quickly. It was > apparent that ARM was here to stay and they had no defence. With all the > third-party apps, created around the proprietary ideals, they could never > have compe

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 17 April 2014 16:22, Marco Trevisan wrote: > It's also true that at some point we have to deliver that, and put it in > production in a point release, in order to get things to work in the > real world. So, the point is: if an user prefer to keep the status-quo > until the converged experienc

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-17 Thread Marco Trevisan
Il giorno gio, 17/04/2014 alle 06.42 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad ha scritto: > On 17 April 2014 05:01, Robert Park wrote: > Nobody is going to force you to use a phone interface if you > don't want to. > If someone tells you that they're deeply passionate about an Ubuntu > projec

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-17 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2014, 02:50 +0200 schrieb Jo-Erlend Schinstad: > > On 16 April 2014 07:47, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > It's a much bigger and urgent problem to be able to provide a > phone/desktop image which can work with click apps and image >

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 17 April 2014 05:01, Robert Park wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad > wrote: > > I was very happy to read the main from Jason Warner, by the way. I'm just > > not entirely sure what he means. I hope it means giving us desktop users > a > > period of calm, like the G

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Park
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > I was very happy to read the main from Jason Warner, by the way. I'm just > not entirely sure what he means. I hope it means giving us desktop users a > period of calm, like the Gnome desktop used to be for ten years before the > whole

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 17 April 2014 04:00, Robert Park wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason Warner > wrote: > > When I read Jo-Erlend's email, this stuck out at me: > > > > "but don't merge them too soon" > > > > We are going to be certain to merge when ready and not before. > > Yes, sorry I wasn't clea

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Park
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason Warner wrote: > When I read Jo-Erlend's email, this stuck out at me: > > "but don't merge them too soon" > > We are going to be certain to merge when ready and not before. Yes, sorry I wasn't clear, I'm not trying to suggest that we merge them immediately or

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Jason Warner
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Robert Park wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad > wrote: > > In other words; > > the PC Desktop needs to be the best PC desktop there is. The Phone > desktop > > does not. > > But the whole point of Convergence is that the "PC Desktop" *i

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Park
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > In other words; > the PC Desktop needs to be the best PC desktop there is. The Phone desktop > does not. But the whole point of Convergence is that the "PC Desktop" *is* the "Phone desktop". Therefore the "Phone desktop" needs to be th

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 16 April 2014 07:47, Martin Pitt wrote: [snip] > It's a much bigger and urgent problem to be able to provide a > phone/desktop image which can work with click apps and image based > upgrades but at the same time allows you to install classic Ubuntu > packages. That problem is never going to

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2014, 07:47 +0200 schrieb Martin Pitt: > Robert Ancell [2014-04-16 9:52 +1200]: > > I agree this is an enormous change but the reality of what convergence > > means. We want the same apps to run on the phone as the desktop so > > when you dock your phone the apps work in

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 16/04/2014 10:13, Martin Pitt a écrit : > Yes, for sure. I wasn't saying that it doesn't matter to make our > phone apps desktop-compatible, just that I think that we have more > fundamental problems to solve first for an actual convergence > story. Right. As Robert wrote, most of the work on a

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Sebastien Bacher [2014-04-16 10:09 +0200]: > Well, one point where it matters (at least a bit) is that if you dock > your phone you ideally want your music to keep playing. If the phone and > desktop modes have different players it becomes trickier to have a > "smooth transition" and not loose part

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-16 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 16/04/2014 07:47, Martin Pitt a écrit : > It doesn't matter that much if in "desktop mode" we use a different > music player or image viewer, as long as they both show the same files > (yay XDG dirs). Well, one point where it matters (at least a bit) is that if you dock your phone you ideally w

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Robert Ancell [2014-04-16 9:52 +1200]: > I agree this is an enormous change but the reality of what convergence > means. We want the same apps to run on the phone as the desktop so > when you dock your phone the apps work in both form factors. I'm not so sure about that. To me, convergence primar

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread 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 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 th

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Robert Ancell
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Sebastien Bacher 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 good

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Robert Ancell
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Jason Warner wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Robert Park > wrote: >> What is the solution? Will we make the desktop roll? Will we subject >> the phone to freezes? I don't know which approach is superior but the >> only thing that's certain is that

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Robert Ancell
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Adam Dingle wrote: > If you replace all these apps with something else, I think that will be the > largest change in Ubuntu's history - most of these apps have been around > since the dawn of time and are very familiar to Ubuntu users. I'd go so far > as to say th

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Jason Warner
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Robert Park wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Robert Ancell > wrote: > > Are there any other good opportunities for us to start tackling? > > How about the release process itself? Ubuntu Desktop has freeze > periods for it's 6-monthly releases while Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Robert Park
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Robert Ancell wrote: > Are there any other good opportunities for us to start tackling? How about the release process itself? Ubuntu Desktop has freeze periods for it's 6-monthly releases while Ubuntu Touch just steamrolls* right through. This causes some impedanc

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Robert Park
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Adam Dingle wrote: > Robert, thanks for your message. Obviously all of these are significant > projects, but the task "Replace core apps" at the end of your list would > seem to be larger than everything else, depending of course by what you mean > by core. Diffe

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Sebastien Bacher
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 ou

Re: Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-15 Thread Adam Dingle
Robert, thanks for your message. Obviously all of these are significant projects, but the task "Replace core apps" at the end of your list would seem to be larger than everything else, depending of course by what you mean by core. I'm still a little in the dark as to Ubuntu's intentions here:

Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

2014-04-14 Thread Robert Ancell
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.