+1 for every point. I'd also suggest to consider using flatpak instead of snaps, but not sure if it's reasonable.
Regards, Andrew Penkrat On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 at 10:48 Piotrek Mitana <the.mail.of....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I'm new to here. > > Although I've not been active on mailing lists and on Google+, I've been > eagerly observing the Ubuntu Touch from the very beginning. I've also > bought a Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu a few months ago and I am generally happy with > it (apart from some irritating bugs that Canonical never managed to fix - > mostly unreliable network connection and bettery-draining Wi-Fi). > > From the observations I would like to share my idea on how I see the > future for... well, let's call it Unity. Unity OS, Unity Desktop, Unity > Phone, whatever. I don't think I can help with development - at least not > now. But I hope that my voice expressed here will be able to get to the > developers that want to stay and help them find the way for the project. > I've also posted this on UbPorts forum, so that maybe it is more likely to > make its way to the devs. > > ## Let's still fight for convergence! > Yes. This is in my opinion the biggest selling point of Ubuntu Phones. > It's something new - something that others don't have yet. Ubuntu and Linux > in general has lots of great desktop aplications. The vision of having a PC > in our pockets it far too exciting to give it up. > > ## Ubuntu Core can still be a base > I believe that so-called Unity OS shouldn't part with Ubuntu. Canonical is > still pursuing the Ubuntu Core and Snaps and after leaving the phone and > tablet they will pursue that even faster. It's IoT what they chosen to > start earn bigger money on and Canonical's IoT is all about Ubuntu Core and > Snaps. > > ### The hardware > This implies two things: there are and will be devices and chips > OFFICIALLY supported by snaps. There is Raspberry Pi, there is Dragonboard > (so it's a Qualcomm Snapdragon in fact - not too far away from phones!). > This is why I believe the new devs should continue on what Canonical > started and not finished - moving the Ubuntu Phone and Tablet to Ubuntu > Core and Snaps. > > ### Ubuntu Personal > Also I believe that Ubuntu Personal concept (snap based desktop) should > still be on the list, so the "One OS to rule them all" still can be > created. I believe that snaps have still the potential to make up a secure > and reliable desktop with nice permission and dependency management that > Snap introduces. > > ### Clicks and debs are not an option > Why? Well, click was kind of beta for snaps. Canonical decied to move away > from this because they decided to create something better. And snaps are > what Canonical wants to give to the larger community, not only Ubuntu. > > Why not debs? To have the proper system images, OTA updates and a > possibility to lock the system partition. Without that probably no OEM ever > would consider the system reliable enough to put it on production device. > And well, commercial app developers will not want to care about the > dependencies in debs. > > ## The true Unity leads to Wayland > And here is the - what the history has shown - the Canonical's biggest > mistake: Mir. This is what put away the rest of the Linux community and > what created the most conflicts and hatered. Moving Unity to Wayland can > give you more traction and more developers willing to contribute to the > true Unity on phone. And there is one more thing that community had the > problem with and now you can ditch: Contributor License Agreement. > > ## Unity 8 > The concept of Unity 8 is pretty good for all the phones tablets and > desktop. I really like many features of it and the general concept of phone > navigation. Also the scopes are a good concept - but they need to start > working much faster and better. Let's make them ALL freely installable, so > that anyone could install only those he uses. That will generate some > benefits: > > * The community will not hate us for forcing scopes on users > * The OEM's could install their scopes of their choice by default - > customization, ability to sell things with this - more likely to > comercially back the Unity OS. > * Well, the scopes developed to work well would be a wonderful way to > interact with the content. > > And there is one more - Suru design. Ubuntu's font, paperlike themes and > iconset. Please do not ditch that as Unity 8 looks really well and the > theme, icons and design language is really nice! > > ## Not only Unity 8 > As snaps have actually gained some adoption, they can be used to get on > Ubuntu Core not only Unity, but KDE and Plasma Active for example - and > maybe other DE's as well. A Wayland on top of Ubuntu Core can create a > wonderful base for both Unity and Plasma Active. Let's reach the hand to > Plasma Active developers, offer them Snaps and Ubuntu Core as base. Maybe > they will help in getting Core and Wayland on phones and it would lead us > to the common goal - having both Unity and Plasma Active on the phones. And > being able to replace one with another with just a snap swap! > > ## Ubuntu SDK > Yet another thing to keep. There is a bunch of cool apps creating with it > (Dekko, uNav and more) to be kept. It still may help to reach the > convergene goal. > > ## To sum up > So what do we have now? We have Ubuntu Core, we have Snaps and we have > Wayland. We have the communities that will develop those and offload the > Unity OS's dev team, so that they don't have to develop the entire OS > alone. Maybe we have Mir (if Canonical still wants to push it to Ubuntu > Core devices), but without Canonical it won't make sense. > > So let's take care of Unity 8 and Ubuntu SDK, move it further toward > snappification and Ubuntu Core, make a switch to Wayland and pursue the > convergence further. > > So this is how I see it. Let's create the true Unity - untiy of community > with Wayland and the unity of platforms with Convergence. I still keep my > fingers crossed for you, guys. And maybe someday I will be able to jump in > as well? > > Best regards, > Piotr Mitana > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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