On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Adam Dingle <a...@medovina.org> wrote: > If you replace all these apps with something else, I think that will be the > largest change in Ubuntu's history - most of these apps have been around > since the dawn of time and are very familiar to Ubuntu users. I'd go so far > as to say that the new desktop would be pretty much unrecognizable to > existing users, for better or for worse.
I agree this is an enormous change but the reality of what convergence means. We want the same apps to run on the phone as the desktop so when you dock your phone the apps work in both form factors. What's crucially important is that we start working on getting them desktop capable so we're not changing everything at the point of convergence. We need to follow something like: 1. Getting the app to run on the desktop 2. Getting the app to have appropriate functionality for a desktop use case 3. Promoting the app as an alternative 4. Making the app a default The majority of this work will probably be done by each app development team, not necessarily the desktop team. We do want to make sure this is progressing however. If we can chip away at these the migration will not be so sudden, though LTS-LTS upgraders will probably see huge changes. I'm not proposing any specific apps to change, just the ones that become viable alternatives. The existing apps still remain in the repository of course. I imagine by convergence not all apps will be changed unless someone is motivated to make a (better) Ubuntu SDK alternative. Also, if solutions appear that make apps suitable in their current form they may not need to be replaced at all. --Robert -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
