On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Narcis Garcia <informat...@actiu.net> wrote: > Why Ubuntu Gnome project abandoned main principle to be «mostly pure > GNOME desktop experience» and then the project abandoned project itself? > > I think an Ubuntu GNOME (real) flavour has fully sense today, and it > seems even easier to maintain.
Thank you for your comments. We probably should have put out a blog post to explain things a bit more when 17.10 was released, but here's a draft of what that would say… If there was a separate Ubuntu GNOME, then it would be much easier for mainline Ubuntu to drift further and further away from GNOME. We have merged our efforts to help "keep them honest", to push for Ubuntu to stick closely with GNOME. Ubuntu 17.10 diverges from stock GNOME in a few ways: a different theme, a Dock by default, and preserving legacy status icons through the App Indicator extension. Each of those choices are very popular. Recognizing that the theme's implementation isn't as good as it could be, community designers are working with Canonical on a theme refresh this year. There is one other divergence: Ubuntu has made some different app choices than Ubuntu GNOME did. I think it's worth mentioning that even Fedora includes Firefox, Rhythmbox and Shotwell by default instead of the GNOME alternatives. We could have a long conversation about why Ubuntu has the default apps it does, but in general it's a pretty good selection. It is extremely easy to get a default GNOME Shell by installing gnome-session then reboot and pick GNOME from the gear menu after choosing your name on the login screen. If you prefer the app selection and a few tweaks from the old Ubuntu GNOME, install vanilla-gnome-desktop . [1] Ubuntu GNOME developers are continuing the same work we started over 5 years ago. It is because of Ubuntu GNOME's efforts that it is so easy to run stock GNOME on Ubuntu. It is even better in 17.10 than in 17.04 (a particular new feature are per-desktop overrides to allow users to get good defaults based on the desktop they log into). Just today, GNOME To Do was added to the default install for 18.04 and GNOME Characters replaced the older Character Map. [2] This week, we dropped downstream Unity anti-headerbar patches from 6 core GNOME apps. We are pushing our packaging work into Debian (which is now at a historically high level of synchronization). We are pushing bug fixes and improvements directly into GNOME. I believe Ubuntu GNOME's vision has always been about merging the most popular Linux desktop with the most popular Linux distribution. In my opinion, creating a separate distro/release now would only weaken what we've accomplished and what we can build together in the future. [1] ubuntu-gnome-desktop is now a transitional package depending on ubuntu-desktop and gnome-session to get most former Ubuntu GNOME users back to mainline Ubuntu so they can get a full 5 years support. [2] https://community.ubuntu.com/t/gnome-to-do-installed-by-default/3608 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
