End of Unity Desktop in Ubuntu Follow Up

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Published on April 7, 2017 3:26:03 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJQkK6pTVCI

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Discussing some more points to the surprising news that Canonical are ending development of Unity desktop and will be switching to Gnome in Ubuntu 18.04.
Original post: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence
Canonical cutting jobs: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/canonical_cuts_jobs_with_unity_bullet/

Is it in April fools joke?
No, this news was on Ubuntu insights and was released late in the day on 5th April, right at the end of the tax year

Is it the end of Ubuntu?
No, Server and Snappy are doing very well

What will we loose
Hud
Gnome version available https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus
KDE version rumoured http://blog.broulik.de/2016/10/global-menus-returning/
Decent implementation of Global / Local menus
Fancy looking task switcher

Future of Ubuntu Gnome
Too soon to tell https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/2017-April/004248.html
Ubuntu Gnome provide a stock desktop, maybe they will live on with that offering

Unity 8
Already forked
https://github.com/unity8org/unity8org
https://plus.google.com/b/109167721776905031830/110699558853693437587/posts/7RHujp9u7oW
Unity 8 is dependent on Mir. Unlikely community will be able to maintain Mir, therefore will have to switch to Wayland / X11

Unity 7
Unused in any other distribution
Going to be a challenge to continue development
Gnome changes require themes to be consistently updated
Reinstating removed features, e.g. Nautilus type ahead search
Compiz probably won’t be ported to Wayland
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg0NjY
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI2ODU