On 08/19/2014 02:10 PM, Michael Hall wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As we move towards our goal of converging the Ubuntu phone, tablet and > desktop into a single codebase, we need to make sure we understand how > some of the new technology that was developed for mobile devices will > impact desktop users. I have created a short survey[1] to get your > feedback on some of the bigger changes, which we will use to instruct > our choices on what and how to bring these to the desktop. > > The survey will ask you about how different changes might affect the way > you use Ubuntu, both positively and negatively. But it is important to > remember that no decisions have been made yet regarding whether or not > these changes will actually happen on the desktop. The purpose of this > survey is to help us evaluate what their impact might be, and what work > would be required to make them work for all of our users. > > If you have a custom or unusual setup with Ubuntu, we are particularly > interested in hearing about those details. It's easy enough for us to > consider the impact on common use-cases of Ubuntu, but understanding the > various edge-cases requires input from the people involved with them. > > Finally, none of the information you provide in this survey will be used > for anything other than evaluating and planning for the use of these > technologies in Ubuntu. No personally identifiable information will be > asked for, and nothing will be sold to any 3rd party. > > [1] https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UbuntuConvergenceFeedback For whatever it's worth, I think this convergence a is supremely ill advised idea, especially if it impacts appearance to a user: a phone is different from a desktop and thus should behave differently. Any attempt to combine will ultimately result in a software that nobody likes. My analogy is that one can eat a steak and potatoes with a swiss army knife but nobody is going to enjoy the experience.
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