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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Conscious User <[email protected]>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. > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Cody Garver
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