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

[Jerry Snitselaar]

Nathan @ 2017-04-06 01:35 GMT:

> 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.
>

Is there a link to this? Seeing as the gnome project seems to get along
with every other distro I'm not sure the problem was on their end.

With Unity, Mir, and Upstart being canned, any thoughts on whether
snappy will survive?

>
>
>> 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!