Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 12.10 and beyond, Unity 2D will no longer be maintained.

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Luke,

Yes, that makes perfect sense to me. While it does seem like a setback
in the short term for Ubuntu users as far as accessibility goes there
are still other choices. AS I mentioned earlier on this thread I'm
happily using Gnome Shell on a couple of systems and if unity 2D gets
scrapped I can always install Gnome Shell 3.6 etc and use that until
Unity 3D has reasonable accessibility. The other option is, as you
pointed out, to simply stick with 12.04 until 14 is out which gives us
two years of updates and Unity 2D, Gnome Shell, etc. So I don't think
waiting two years for the next LTS release as a huge problem long
term. I pretty much did that with 10.04 to 12.04 and it worked out
fine for me for the long hall.

Plus as I have pointed out many times Unity 2D seems pretty unstable.
Others have commented on the fact Compiz is buggy and Mutter is a
better window manager etc. So if we could focus our attention on
getting Unity 3D accessible rather than chasing our tails getting
unity 2D and Compiz fixed we'll be further ahead in the long run.

Cheers!


On 5/9/12, Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> So as some of you may have heard, Canonical has plans to stop maintaining
> unity 2D in future development cycles. This makes sense because spending
> double the resources trying to keep 2 desktops in feature parity is a lot of
> work, and those resources can be used much better elsewhere. The downside of
> course, is accessibility. Unity 3D accessibility still needs some work to
> get to feature parity with Unity 2D, but once this work is done, it
> shouldn't be a problem keeping things working in the future.
>
> So, i will be working on improving Unity 3D accessibility in the future
> development cycles. I am not going to promise that it will be done by 12.10,
> although I would like it to be, but thats not my goal. My goal is to get
> Unity 3D accessibility ready for 14.04 LTS.
>
> I feel that unless you really understand how to get set up, and unbreak your
> system, and deal with accessibility bugs, you should stick to the ubuntu LTS
> releases. Once Vinux 4 gets released, there will be a distro based on Ubuntu
> LTS, that will be kept up to date with all the latest in accessibility
> fixes, so that you don't need to keep updating to the interim Ubuntu
> releases, and risk breaking your usable system.
>
> Luke
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