On 14 May 2014 17:15, Stephen M. Webb <[email protected]> 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 contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which >> have been developed for the touch >> project. >> >> The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use to >> figure out the work that's required to >> make a desktop product based on this software usable, and to create a space >> for experimentation to figure out the >> best ways of carrying out the required integration. We still plan to migrate >> pieces of the current desktop over, >> but we are very mindful of the need to not destabilise the desktop and upset >> its users, and are hopeful that >> developing this flavour in parallel will mean that migrations will truly >> happen when software is ready instead of >> as a result of pressure to get work into the hands of users early. > > Just out of curiosity, what does creating a new flavour deliver that is not > already available simply by installing the > Unity 8 desktop session from the archives? >
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. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
