Detailed plan for Canonical integration of Unity8 to Ubuntu

Ubuntu users now have a definite understanding of unity8 integration into ubuntu Desktop related plans. Ubuntu Desktop has not attracted the attention of more developers, but now this situation is changing faster. Willcoke, manager of the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical, recently talked about future plans for unity desktop and plans for several later Ubuntu versions. Many ubuntu users may have discovered that more and more ubuntu users

Ubuntu users now have a definite understanding of unity8 integration into ubuntu Desktop related plans. Ubuntu Desktop has not attracted the attention of more developers, but now this situation is changing faster. Will coke, manager of the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical, recently talked about future plans for unity desktop and plans for several later Ubuntu versions.

There may already be many ubuntu users who have found that more and more ubuntu developers are putting their energy on the ubuntu mobile terminal platform. At the same time, there are fewer developers paying attention to ubuntu on the desktop than usual. This may be because we all think that the results of a lot of improvements and optimizations from ubuntu touch will eventually be collected to the desktop!

In fact, not everyone believes that the current desktop environment on ubuntu touch will make the ubuntu Desktop more powerful in the future, it's not long before we talk about the future! In fact, it's closer than you think!

The next generation of Ubuntu LTS uses unity8 by default.

Ubuntu's mobile platform is using unity8, which is different from the unity7 currently used on the desktop. After all, many interesting features are used. It takes almost two years for ubuntu developers to make unity8 run perfectly on ubuntu phone and ubuntu touch, almost all of their efforts were made.

The new desktop team manager of Canonical, Will coke, explained in detail the Development Blueprint of unity8. The default desktop of ubuntu14.10 to be released Will still be unity7, unity8 will only be provided as an option in the developer's preview version. ubuntu15.04 still uses unity7 as the default desktop, but unity8 will be provided as an alternative, however, using unity8 as the default desktop is most likely in ubuntu15.10 release.

Will said "possible" because he was not sure whether some unexpected events would affect the progress before that. ubuntu developers may be prepared or not, so check the situation. However, it is certain that unity8 will be used as the default desktop for ubuntu16.04.

Why is ubuntu new desktop so special?

You may think that unity8 is just an upgrade of the desktop environment. In fact, it is far more than that! As unity8 is built, when developers release new applications and updates, end users will receive the related package versions more quickly, instead of waiting for the new version of ubuntu to obtain the relevant important application or binary package!

"Generally, the release of the new version of ubuntu will be accompanied by updates to the new version of related applications. Of course, there must be important security updates and BUG fixes, but in order to obtain related updates, you have to wait patiently for the release of the new version of ubuntu and major updates to related applications. The new version of unity8 ensures that developers can push updates to the client in real time without waiting. There is no doubt that end users will benefit a lot !" Will Coke said so.

Community resistance still exists

For Canonical, unity8 is a major change, and from the very beginning, it is also well known that unity8 has experienced great challenges and resistance from the community! Fortunately, the unity8 project was recognized by most people from the very beginning. Of course, some people think that unity7 is the best, and unity8 is a failed product. This is no way!

Canonical now provides another unity8 image (click to browse), which is called "NEXT "! This is a live CD that can present general functions, but this product is based on a tablet with a large number! Look forward to it, stupid Earth man. I hope you will have enough time to use the new version of unity next year!

Original Author: Silviu Stahie

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