I seriously don't see that happening with Unity. The community justly or unjustly voiced their dismay with the project, I vote unjustly. I don't see where Unity fits in with a world of KDE, Gnome and hundreds of other DEs.
Unity was made to unify people's experience with using it on a tablet, phone or desktop. It is pretty clear that the only thing left is desktop. I don't see what is unique that would compel a developer to continue another project when they create their own or join one of the bigger projects with an already established community.
Personally I love KDE and i3. I never use anything else for years because I don't have a problem I am hoping to solve through another project. What does Unity offer for a person to switch?
If you like to customize and have lots of options = KDE
If you like things to have less options and "just works" = Gnome
I actually like Gnome Shell, but as soon as my computer is under moderate load, everything becomes laggy, including my mouse. This is a known issue, but the devs are not planning on fixing it until Gnome 4 (years from now)?
Granted, this only happens under Wayland, but I have a hidpi display on my laptop and Xorg doesn't support a different dpi for external monitors. So I'd much prefer to be able to use Wayland.
I do. It's my favorite of the mainstream DEs. It doesn't waste much space, it looks good out of the box (in my opinion), and it's more stable and responsive than GNOME in my experience.
I'm still on 16.04 with Unity. I switch between Unity and Xfce (mainly because the machine is old). I hope community support stays strong and addresses some shortcomings that have been around (I don't recall what they were, but there were some even in Ubuntu 16.04). I'm not a fan of the other interfaces being similar to Windows, and I like having a better experience right out-of-the-box.
If there were a way to donate money to directly help continue Unity development and maintenance, I'd seriously consider it.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 53.8 ms ] threadI am looking for an active fork.
Unity was made to unify people's experience with using it on a tablet, phone or desktop. It is pretty clear that the only thing left is desktop. I don't see what is unique that would compel a developer to continue another project when they create their own or join one of the bigger projects with an already established community.
Personally I love KDE and i3. I never use anything else for years because I don't have a problem I am hoping to solve through another project. What does Unity offer for a person to switch?
If you like to customize and have lots of options = KDE
If you like things to have less options and "just works" = Gnome
If you lie _____ and ____ = Unity
GNOME Shell is pretty good, and hopefully it can get even better with contributions from Canonical and the larger Ubuntu community.
Granted, this only happens under Wayland, but I have a hidpi display on my laptop and Xorg doesn't support a different dpi for external monitors. So I'd much prefer to be able to use Wayland.
I also loved Unity and I’m very sad to see it go, but gnome 3 with a few extensions is a worthy replacement.
If there were a way to donate money to directly help continue Unity development and maintenance, I'd seriously consider it.