Unity 8 as default desktop
What features and capabilities are required to be in Unity 8 before it can replace Unity 7 as the default desktop environment in Ubuntu.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Will Cooke
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Michael Hall
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Will Cooke
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- Accepted for wily
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Session notes
=== legacy apps ===
* plans to support legacy X apps (full session about that tomorrow)
- lxd based container system with debs support, support for Xmir
plan for the cycle:
- "best effort" (going to be as good as possible but it might not be perfect), some apps are going to work, others maybe not yet
- first iteration, container set up, letting install/start some X applications
- make sure a selected list of applications works without issue, others should work but no garanty
=== copy/paste, dnd ===
there is a plan to support those (from the mir team?), nobody actually working on it yet
=== windows management ===
work happening mostly in Mir
the current team focus is still on phone, need ressources assigned to desktop work
managing focus & placement of windows
- Add support to Mir to receive WM requests from toolkits, and implement these on toolkits as well.
=== things needed to be usable as a dev env ===
standard applications
windows management -> should make a good part of the Qt/GTK applications work
multi monitor support?
workitems
that session goal is to give an overview of the work needed, details and workitems are covered in other more-topic-oriented blueprints/sessions
