Wow... Unity, Mir, Ubuntu phone/tablet all going bye bye

[Michael Butash]

I too am a bit annoyed they threw in behind gnome, I've never been able to
use it and not be instantly annoyed since it's come out.  I've tried many
times, I just simply don't get it.  Better than Unity, but not by much, and
since I've stopped deploying ubuntu 6 months ago, much happier in general.

I've been trying to use KDE for the past 3-4 years, but I finally set a
fire to it mentally for it's sheer inability ever, EVER, figure out
multi-monitor capabilities despite hundreds of bug reports on the same
thing.  Kwin compositing is still another persistent issue, combined with
the inability to properly support multimonitor configs became too
frustrating to fsck with anymore.

I'm back to Cinnamon on Arch, which seems to be so far my best experience
with a multi-monitor desktop in years.  Compsiting is a bit wonky, get some
random pattern flashing every now and then that might give someone a
seizure, but only in some parts of the screen, and usually in some
peripheral area of my desktop that doesn't bother me much.  I can however
actually shut off my displays, turn them back on (effectively plug/unplug
the hdmi), and have it restore my desktop almost perfectly, which KDE
simply can/could never do without crashing or breaking itself in ugly ways
since 4.0.

-mb

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Nathan <plug-discuss at nmecs.com> wrote:

> On 2017-04-05 14:02, Brian Cluff wrote:
>
> I'm a little split.  While ultimately I think that not having Unity
>> around will better focus development at a more common level; it's sad
>> to see so much development time and energy spend on something just to
>> have it abandoned.  Hopefully the good parts of Unity will make it
>> into other projects so that they can live on.
>>
>
>
> It's interesting that you say that. It seems to me we (people in general)
> have really bad memories. Didn't they ultimately decide to fork and leave
> Gnome because the developers of Gnome refused to work with and or cooperate
> with the Canonical guys? The Gnome people haven't changed one bit, so
> Canonical must have forgotten and they suddenly think the Gnome guys will
> welcome their code bits? I don't see that happening at all. It is a shame
> the development will be lost, and more of a shame that future development
> will just be a complete waste.
>
>
>
> Too bad they couldn't have decided to shift to KDE... but that's just
>> my own self service opinion. :-)
>>
>
> I am a proud Gnome hater. I am an even prouder KDE supporter, so I second
> your opinion!
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Nathan
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