On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> 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 goodness that is going into >> the phone / tablet builds is coming our way and we need to be prepared >> for that migration. >> >> Put screensaver management into the shell. > In normal sessions g-s is not running anymore Aha, I hadn't rebooted since then. Cross that one off the list!
>> >> Put PolicyKit handling into the shell. >> We use policykit-gnome for the dialogs but GNOME uses the shell for >> this. We should be doing the same. A nice to have would be to >> implement this in both Unity 7 and Unity 8 but as long as it is there >> by convergence then we're good to go. > Having them in the shell would probably make sense. Did we have a design > for those? IIRC, at the different of GNOME, we wanted them more like > "normal dialogs" (e.g not doing the "dim the screen/grab focus/be in the > middle locking everything else"). If that's the case we might want to > keep the -gnome version for unity7 (since the shell is not using an "app > toolkit"). No idea about designs, needs following up. >> Gut unity-settings-daemon > Right, a lot of that is going to require the MIR/new services to work/be > used on desktop though. Yes >> Make Ubuntu System Settings [1] desktop capable > That item is similar to the previous one. We also need desktop designs > for ubuntu-system-settings. Yes, but this one we can only switch as default once all the functionality is complete. At least with u-s-d we can do it in parts. So, I think in summary: Lots of leaning on mpt/design :) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
