Public bug reported:
As of Ubuntu 16.04, it is no fun anymore to use any desktop environment
except Unity. There is a plethora of problems in Gnome Shell, Gnome
Fallback Session, MATE.
While me having no trouble with Unity, I have some usage scenarios that
prefer other desktops.
Now more and more apps tend to be use features of Unity and package
maintainers doesn't seem to cope with the changes outsite of the Unity
environment.
For exmaple: Some apps (nautlilus, control panel, gitg, ....) are using
new features (like the launcher icon context menu, mabye first provided
by Unity, borderless windows etc.) and do not provide a reliable
fallback for old desktops.
So if the new features prove useful, the old desktops should retrofit
them somehow. A borderless window should never be shown without resize
handles in any environment if it would have some in Unity. If there are
new libs for handling this new features, those libs should provide
reliable, well tested fallback mechanisms for the older environments.
It is bad to load up the developers of apps with the handling of this
new features, as many of them would fall to "new style" promises and
would produce Unity-only apps this way.
I am very pissed of by these shortsigthed developments, that lead to Ubuntu
being an almost Unity-only system as of 16.04 now, with myriads of problems in
any desktop other then Unity.
** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1621117
Title:
Unity impacts on alternatives
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
As of Ubuntu 16.04, it is no fun anymore to use any desktop
environment except Unity. There is a plethora of problems in Gnome
Shell, Gnome Fallback Session, MATE.
While me having no trouble with Unity, I have some usage scenarios
that prefer other desktops.
Now more and more apps tend to be use features of Unity and package
maintainers doesn't seem to cope with the changes outsite of the Unity
environment.
For exmaple: Some apps (nautlilus, control panel, gitg, ....) are
using new features (like the launcher icon context menu, mabye first
provided by Unity, borderless windows etc.) and do not provide a
reliable fallback for old desktops.
So if the new features prove useful, the old desktops should retrofit
them somehow. A borderless window should never be shown without resize
handles in any environment if it would have some in Unity. If there
are new libs for handling this new features, those libs should provide
reliable, well tested fallback mechanisms for the older environments.
It is bad to load up the developers of apps with the handling of this
new features, as many of them would fall to "new style" promises and
would produce Unity-only apps this way.
I am very pissed of by these shortsigthed developments, that lead to Ubuntu
being an almost Unity-only system as of 16.04 now, with myriads of problems in
any desktop other then Unity.
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