My sentence ran out of fuel there. PPAs are immensely valuable and eclipse any popular sentiment right now.
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Cody Garver <c...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > PPAs. > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Conscious User > <consciousu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Cody Garver > -- Cody Garver
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