Hi all, Some time ago, I have noticed that an app I'm developing had some rendering issues only when the Ubuntu overlay scrollbars were being used. When I took this to Ubuntu developers, I was told that my best chance was to patch the scrollbars myself because no one was currently working on them.
This is a symptom of something that, for anyone who's been following the Ubuntu developer community, should be quite evident at this point: due to the move to QML and touch, GTK and the rest of the stack Ubuntu had been using will now be second-class citizens, and it is only a matter of time before this change of status starts to gradually creep into overall stability and speed of fixing bugs. This wouldn't be much of a problem if Ubuntu simply packaged and shipped a vanilla GNOME stack, but the problem is that they ship a patched stack mixed with unpolished Ayatana projects which might now never get any more polish. And this might get worse with the move to Mir, as Canonical will probably need to add and maintain Mir support to GTK by itself. My intention here is not to question any direction Canonical is taking, but to question how much it still makes sense to build elementary on top of Ubuntu instead of a distro that uses a more vanilla GNOME stack or at least one that still treats it as a first-class citizen. It might be a good time to have a serious discussion on this. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
