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[Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My sentence ran out of fuel there. PPAs are immensely valuable and eclipse
any popular sentiment right now.


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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