There is none currently
We need a team working on it
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Is this project still alive? will there be an .iso for 20.04 to download anytime soon without much of the unnecessary GS baggage?
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I installed Xubuntu 20.04 and then installed Unity7 de. The desktop is a lot faster/smoother than when I installed it on vanilla 20.04.
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Any particular reason for why this should be the case?
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First release of Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.04 is ready! It can be downloaded from:
Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tjJ3jVSNZlT1_g4hnQJZg_jbbkUKtt2n/view?usp=sharing
MEGA: https://mega.nz/file/SEBHHY7S#6f827bKYQcIxLHbdnAwHCQp3dz4-3IwTyLA5Xs2l-wQ
Please join us on Telegram at: https://t.me/ubuntuunityannouncements
Website would be coming up soon.
Release Notes
- It has been upgraded with the latest versions of Firefox, LibreOffice and the latest Kernel package in the repos.
- Has the unofficial PPAs removed.
- Has some bug fixes.
- There has been a major change to GDM3, so lightdm has been removed completely. However, you can install it if you want to.
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I downloaded and tested Unubuntu 20.04 this evening. When it was the official desktop I was not particularly happy, mainly because my computers didn’t have enough ‘horsepower’.
I must say that I am impressed by this release. Thanks a lot everybody who have contributed during the last years 
By the way, I’m running it persistent live in a small SSD so that I can test it easily in different computers.
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Not sure what you’ve got going here, seems best suited for a live session.
For installs I’d use an Ubuntu image, install ubuntu-unity-desktop and go from there.
Generally that’s all you’ve done with a few additions/subtractions/updates & some unneeded packages.
What’s your reasoning to use gdm3?
And if valid then why provide gnome-shell in wayland but not X sessions?
As far as installing and then switching to lightdm, not quite that simple.
For some reason lightdm-gtk-greeter & unity-greeter are already installed, the former takes precedence and is terrible… lightdm-gtk-greeter needs to be removed.
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Is there an official website yet for the Ubuntu Unity Remix?
@jaime-cruz Yes, it is at https://ubuntuunity.org/. I created it in the beginning of June. You can track all the development at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-unity-remix-20-04/, https://twitter.com/ubuntu_unity and https://t.me/ubuntuunityannouncements.
@mc3man A lot has changed since then. I had removed ubuntu-session (which was showing the ‘Ubuntu on Wayland’ session). I had replaced GDM3 with LightDM (unity-greeter) and removed lightdm-gtk-greeter. I have created tools for Ubuntu Unity like devunity (a debugging tool for Unity7) etc. I replaced nautilus with nemo (on popular demand) and got rid of nautilus in the ISO, although I kept nautilus-data since it is an essential package for Unity7. And there are many customizations. Hence, Ubuntu Unity != vanilla Ubuntu + ubuntu-unity-desktop.
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Excellent! Bookmarked and downloading the ISO now.
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Just a suggestion that maybe you should include the CompizConfig Settings Manager as part of the default installation?
One other thing I discovered. Originally posted over on the Ubuntu Unity site you directed me to, but not getting any responses:
https://www.foss.ubuntuunity.org/forums/discussion/19/integrating-nemo-with-deja-dup#latest
Nemo is not integrated with Deja Dup (Backup utility) as it is with Nautilus. There SEEMS to be a solution but can’t find any direction on how to apply it. It SHOULD be part of the base installation however…
@jaime-cruz Sure, I’ll include Nemo support for Déjà Dup by default. For now, you can copy the .nemo_action files at https://github.com/erickj/nemo-actions to /usr/share/nemo/actions/ (system-wide actions; copying requires root/sudo) or ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/ (local-user actions; you may need to create the directory).
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@rs2009 found another discrepancy in the Unity/Nemo link. I know you’re aware of the “Trash Icon” issue but on Bionic with the Unity Desktop installed, if I insert removable media or mount a network drive an icon appears in the launcher. This is not happening in the 20.04.1 Unity Remix system I have running. It shows up on the desktop, but not in the launcher.
I’m using 20.04 (server + ubuntu-unity-desktop) and the icons for removable drives appear both on my desktop and in the launcher. Maybe this is just an issue specific to the remix iso.
@calico-cat likely as when I installed the unity-desktop on 20.04LTS I did not see this problem. The remix replaces nautilus with nemo, and nemo apparently needs the same patching that had been done to nautilus in the past in order to integrate fully with Unity.
@jaime-cruz @calico-cat Yes, the issue is with Nemo, as Nautilus is purged in the new remix ISOs. But it works in the previous versions of the remix where Nautilus wasn’t removed. I’m aware of these issues. Will take a look.