Restarting Unity development in 2021 - Progress Report

Desktop Ubuntu Unity Development
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Ok , BTW thanks for fast reply .

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Are there plans to bring the side panel as well?

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Yes, weā€™ll be adding the launcher as well.

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Is It Going to have a global menu ?

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Yes, weā€™ll be working on it. We have already implemented the HUD.

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Will UnityX be available for Arch Linux ?

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Weā€™ll be taking a look at writing a PKGBUILD for UnityX (similar to the DEBBUILD at https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity-x/unityx/-/blob/master/DEBBUILD).

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When is next release of UnityX going to be released ?

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Weā€™ll be working on it soon (the next step is to add the Ayatana indicators, which will take a bit of time). Currently busy with lol, an open-source alternative to the Snap Server/Store.

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Bravo Rudra! Are you working on the launcher yet? I really donā€™t like the current implementation (has nothing to do with what we are used to in Unity7).

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Thank you :) Yup, Iā€™m working on the launcher (was busy with a few other releases).

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2021-08-02: dev6

  • A completely redesigned panel and a new dock that are both identical to those of Unity7.
  • A redesigned launcher, similar to that of Unity7 (Iā€™ll be working on adding support for scopes and lenses).
  • Support for changing the icon theme (through unity-control-center).

Release

You can follow the instructions at https://docs.unityx.org/installation to add the testing repo and install UnityX.

Screenshot

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Seems like the fix for gtk3-nocsd introduced some breaking dependencies:

code --version
/snap/code/85/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders: /snap/core/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0)
/snap/code/85/usr/share/code/bin/../code: /snap/core/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0)

Does anyone experience this issue?

P.S. The official deb works itā€™s snap that seems messed up.

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ah, snaps seem to be using an older version of glibc. Guess it should be fixed once core22 is released (the core snap based on 22.04) with a newer version of glibc and snaps upgrade to it.

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no, that is not how snaps work, only once code would be re-built against the new base it would be fixed ā€¦ since code works as is, i wouldnā€™t hold my breath for microsoft to switch over fast ā€¦

are you ld-pre-loading libgtk2-noscd or some such (this error should normally not happen unless there are any hacks (like LD_PRELOAD) applied) ?

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sure @ogra, thatā€™s why I mentioned after ā€˜snaps upgrade to itā€™.

yup, gtk3-nocsd is loaded using LD_PRELOAD

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that will break every desktop snap out there ā€¦

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well, the CSD does cause a lot of issues in Unity7 (such as window borders being cut midway) and gtk3-nocsd is required for this reason. It canā€™t be loaded as a GTK module since GTK4 apps donā€™t support loading modules.

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I havenā€™t seen anything regarding a beta build of Jammy Jellyfish with the Unity desktop. Has development stopped? Thatā€™d be a damned shame if soā€¦ the more GNOME changes, the less enamored of it I become (and I wasnā€™t terribly fond of it to start with).

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Nope, weā€™re actually fixing a major bug in Unity7 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1969357).

@3v1n0 @seb128 You might want to take a look at the bug report above.

@vanvugt The bug report is in gnome-session, not Unity, so not sure why the package was changed.