[Unity] [трей] А также в области балета мы впереди планеты всей

Отправитель: Rick Spencer (Canonical)
Получатель: ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com

Hello all,

Back at UDS for 11.04 in Orlando, Mark set the goal of using Unity by default on the Ubutu desktop. Given the current course of development, it appears that we are going to achieve this goal, and Unity will stay the default for 11.04.

I'm following up on this list at the suggestion of the Tech Board to give folks a chance to respond or escelate any concerns.

Note that there are some arguments for changing the default from Unity to «classic' GNOME:
1. There are key feature regressions, for example, there is no systray support for many important applications.
2. There are usability problems, for example, settings are hard to find, the launcher icons behave differently when you click on the trash can versus the home folder launcher, it's hard to find a categorized view of applications, searches do not always turn up expected results.
3. We are coming in too hot, there are too many crashers on some hardware and the final product will be buggy.

I won't rebut these points myself, as I am rather striving to represent the viewpoints not argue against them.

Representing the desktop team, Jason Warner believes that Unity will deliver the superior experience for most users in 11.04. I agree with this position and support staying the course.


Комментарий: Scott Kitterman

Ubuntu is alone, AFAIK, in deciding to do away with the notification area/systray (in KDE it's called the systray). I think it's reasonably inevitable that there will always be packages that don't support this Ubuntu unique functionality. I'm not sure if that's an argument for waiting (more time might yield more support) or an argument for going ahead (no matter how long we'll always lose some fraction of support).

It does seem relevant to this discussion however because even though removing the notification area could have been a classic mode problem, it's at present something that is tied to Unity.