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[Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PPAs.


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxxxx>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.
>
>
>
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Cody Garver