So unexpected. Mark probably was already like "why we doing this stuff?" 2 years after the beginning but he still had his hopes high up. Another 2 years later he finally understood that it would take them another 6 to finish the damn thing.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostIf they just gave up on phones, I would understand. If they just gave up on Mir, I'd be like "finally". If they just gave up on Unity, I'd be a little bit surprised. But since they're surrendering all of these at the same time, that's a shocker.
So not a big shocker, really.
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Jeez. This was a complete surprise.
I always thought Unity was a good DE. Would've preferred if they used Wayland instead of Mir, but apparently the whole thing is now shelved. I wonder what all the Canonical employees who were working on Mir / Unity 8 will be doing now? Getting fired? Contributing to GNOME?
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Originally posted by klapaucius View PostThe phone project depended on Unity8, which in turn depended on MiR, which was doomed from the beginning, because it heavily depended on the vendors' support.
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Wow, what a shock. I am ok if they ditch Unity 8, but I was hoping that the keep the phone around.
Anyway, if they sticked with Gnome from the very beginning and spent all these years improving gnome to make it fit for phones the story would've been different now.
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: Ubuntu To Abandon Unity 8, Switch Back To GNOME
Canonical has announced via Mark Shuttleworth they are ending their development of the Unity 8 desktop environment and will be switching back to GNOME desktop by Ubuntu 18.04...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Dropping-Unity
Seriously I'm no fan of Ubuntu and Unity is one of the reasons, but this is a surprise.
It is sad to see them giving up on phones and I suspect this likely means tablets too. I have this desire to see a truly open tablet system to compete with Apples iPad.
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