Ubuntu Needs Help Fixing Thousands Of Unity/Compiz Bugs For 16.04 LTS

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67376

    Ubuntu Needs Help Fixing Thousands Of Unity/Compiz Bugs For 16.04 LTS

    Phoronix: Ubuntu Needs Help Fixing Thousands Of Unity/Compiz Bugs For 16.04 LTS

    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS shipping next April on the desktop will be using Unity 7 by default along with the Compiz window manager atop an X.Org Server. While this isn't as big of a change as switching to Unity 8 on the desktop with Mir, there's still thousands of outstanding bugs...

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  • uid313
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 6922

    #2
    Yeah, Compiz is a mess. So much bugs, and often there are regressions too.

    Also relies much on outdated legacy technology (such as gcon2 instead of dconf, and GTK2 instead of GTK3).

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    • darkbasic
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2009
      • 3086

      #3
      Just let that shit die in peace. RIP.
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      Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)

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      • Scellow
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2015
        • 125

        #4
        Their shit is non-userfriendly apt or i don't know how they call their shit is hard to understand, if they want people to contribute, they'll have to make their shit easier to learn

        It looks like they only want to rely on senior devs who are there for more than 10 years...

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        • mark45
          Senior Member
          • May 2012
          • 1096

          #5
          Originally posted by darkbasic View Post
          Just let that shit die in peace. RIP.
          Yeah, fixing a thousand bugs, even 200 isn't worth for a project that is deprecated (and dead for most users since upgrades are free) a year from now.
          Anyway, why is Unity 8 taking soooo long?

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          • johnc
            Official X.org Fanboy
            • May 2011
            • 2276

            #6
            Originally posted by uid313 View Post
            Also relies much on outdated legacy technology (such as gcon2 instead of dconf, and GTK2 instead of GTK3).
            They moved over to dconf somewhere between 12.04 and 14.04. I know because I lost all of my configuration settings in the "upgrade". Not that dconf is any better, of course. It's like a big damn registry.

            As for compiz... maybe they should remove the CLA. Did they accept nvidia's patch yet?

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            • dungeon
              Banned
              • Feb 2008
              • 7915

              #7
              Originally posted by Scellow View Post
              Their shit is non-userfriendly apt or i don't know how they call their shit is hard to understand, if they want people to contribute, they'll have to make their shit easier to learn

              It looks like they only want to rely on senior devs who are there for more than 10 years...
              Not true, Ubuntu Compiz developer/maintainer was very young at the time maybe even younger the you

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              • not.sure
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2009
                • 421

                #8
                Sigh, foronix headline. Primarily, they want help with triaging and cleaning up a year-old bug tracker.

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                • souenzzo
                  Phoronix Member
                  • Jul 2013
                  • 88

                  #9
                  Why not use mutter?

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                  • Goddard
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Apr 2012
                    • 100

                    #10
                    I'm gonna help fix bugs. I can't wait for Unity 8. I hope they have a really good run and fix all the issues before it comes out so it works really well.

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