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[nick luigi eusebio <kugi_igi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is it possible to still have click once the phones/tablets switch to snaps?I think this would be better in the early days because I doubt many developers in the Ubuntu Click store will immediately port their apps to snap especially those that are abandoned but still quite useful.

      From: Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx>
 To: mark <j.m.holmes@xxxxxx> 
Cc: Ubuntu Phone <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2017 10:25 PM
 Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Introducing Canonical's Ubuntu Crickets
   


On 1 January 2017 at 14:39, mark <j.m.holmes@xxxxxx> wrote:

  Hi Jo-Erlend,
  Am I right in thinking that the Unity8 session for the Desktop is basically the promised Core and Snap of the upcoming Ubuntu Personal?

Mir, Unity 8 and the snap system is the same in phones and desktop. In 16.10, however, Mir and Unity 8 is provided as traditional debs rather than snaps. It would be very nice if they could provide them as snaps for the desktop in time for 17.04 and that we have the option to keep it rolling from that point. But I don't know anything about their specific plans. 

 And is Canonical's attention focused on the Desktop - presumably Unity8 - at the moment in preparation for 17.04? 

That's probably a big part of it, but it also makes sense to do little with the system that's being replaced and rather focus on the future system. Or rather; focusing the user-visible stuff on the user-visible system while focus on the new phone system is focused on the lower-level stuff such as porting hardware support and snapping software.

What's still needed to mesh Unity8 Desktop OS with Ubuntuphone? It really must be nearly there...? 


These are two different questions. For phones, we need to get at least the core apps ported to snap. Other apps should be ported too, or you would lose functionality in your phone. And the phones hardware support must be upgraded to a new kernel. Desktops have more requirements, such as good support for legacy software, which isn't very relevant on phones. Desktop might also require more features from the snap system. 

I don't know all the details, but from my limited understanding, we should be nearly there. Nearly is a relative term though. :)

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