I agree with that completely! On 08/20/2014 09:56 AM, Peter Rauhut wrote: > Even if we remove the concern about where Unity will go, convergence > of Phone/Tablet and Desktop code means that all changes that are made > for the phone/tablet must take the Desktop into account and > vice-verse. Phones and tablets are essentially used in the same way > and making design and technical decisions for those type of > environments to match is fine. > > However, desktop environments are used in a very different way. The > decisions that are made for a desktop environment should not be > limited by how it will affect a phone/tablet. My opinion is that these > two different things should remain separate. > > > On 8/20/14, 9:01 AM, Alistair Buxton wrote: >> On 19 August 2014 22:19, Michael Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The appearance of Unity on the desktop should remain functionally the >>> same (it'll get a visual update though). It will still function as a >>> desktop, the way Unity 7 does today. >> I think the concern here is that the converged applications will be as >> bad as Unity, and not that Unity itself will get any worse. >> >> This does not affect Xubuntu however as we only use a couple of Ubuntu >> applications which could easily be replaced if they go south. >> >> A much bigger question is whether Xorg will continue to receive the >> same level of maintenance as it does now, since there is very little >> chance Xfce will be ported to Wayland at any time in the next two >> years. (Since it would require a total rewrite and either the removal >> of several features or a massive effort to reimplement the missing >> required APIs in a cross-desktop way.) >> >> -- >> Alistair Buxton >> [email protected] >> > > >
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