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["A. \"Xylon\" V." <avlabs314@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 Tricking other distros...great idea! :P
On Jul 9, 2013 3:23 PM, "Craig" <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +1
> On Jul 9, 2013 12:03 AM, "Conscious User" <conscioususer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Erm... I'm not sure how to answer this. None of
>> your replies seem to be relevant or even directly
>> related to what I said.
>>
>>
>> Em Seg, 2013-07-08 às 23:27 -0500, Cody Garver escreveu:
>> > If anyone is an opponent of GNOME tech right now it's proprietary
>> > video driver developers. Those are concrete issues that affect any
>> > non-Intel GPU user. I haven't seen any hostility from Ubuntu.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >         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.
>> >
>> >
>> >                 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >         --
>> >         Cody Garver
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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