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 <[email protected]>
To: mark <[email protected]>
Cc: Ubuntu Phone <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> 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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