No I dont know.
The patch is 5200 lines long and dont underestimate the complexity of trying to patch this over constantly changing sources.
This is an area people are going to have to accept … or to maintain themselves.
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@fossfreedom it is in fact what I’m trying to understand. I’m trying to estimate what exactly means patching a firefox release to assess if we actually can mantain a patched version ourselves or if we can maybe cooperate with Canonical for this goal.
Grab the xenial source, take the patch and apply it to the beta or nightly firefox upstream sources and try to build packages to 20.04 and 20.10.
That’s the only real way to assess the effort for a community effort.
Remember, you can only have one version of the firefox package in the repository. So any maintenance will only be unofficial. Either via a test ppa or something like a flatpak or snap.
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@rs2009 maybe writing a firefox extension to enable global menus could be a better solution… is it feasible?
I’ll definitely take a look at it as an option in the long term, although I’m currently not sure if that is feasible.
See Desktop Team Updates - Monday 6th July 2020 for an example of how the Desktop Team and the Security Team work together to maintain and update Firefox.
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For info only
The firefox unity patch is maintained in bionic.
As far as 20.04 it can be used ex. here noting this ppa is not for general use & most likely I won’t do a standalone 9though wouldn’t be hard.
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Hello Rudra! I wanted to take a second to say thank you for the work you’re doing. I’ve been using ubuntu for a very long time and I fell in love with Unity as soon as I used it. Although it was not initially well-received by the Ubuntu community (and has only been grudgingly accepted by some, thanks in no small part to continued development by the ubports team), I saw the potential immediately and have preferred unity over all others since.
One aspect of unity that often gets overlooked by the Linux community is that it is incredibly simple for a computer novice to jump in and use. When my wife and I were only dating, I bought her a laptop and installed Ubuntu with unity before I gave it to her. Despite her having only a basic knowledge of computer use at the time, I taught her how to use Ubuntu in about 15 minutes, she still has the laptop 6 years later is using it as I type, and has never once had a problem which caused it not to boot or to require an OS reinstall.
The greatest value that I see in Unity’s interface isn’t it’s forward-thinking touch friendly layout (which is awesome), but rather the incredible simplicity that it brings to the table for inexperienced users. The applications of Ubuntu/Unity could and should be endless when aimed toward computer amateurs and small business/retail.
Anyway, I’m going to just say thank you again and then hop down off my soap box. I admire your work, and I’ll be following along with your progress.
…and if anyone reading this hates unity, I don’t care. I like it. So nanny-nanny nah-nah… ;p
Ken
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I have just installed Ubuntu 20.04 and Iswitched to Unity Desktop immediately because of the look-and-feel of the unity. Some observations about problems I am facing:
1) I could see my apps are crashing randomly usually while rendering.
2) Plus, i am trying o install corel paint shop using wine64. I am getting below error referring to GTK library libgtk3-nocsd. I could see that lib being referred is a link(showing as red in the folder) which looks to me ad if the target library it should refer is missing. I have tried uninstalling the libgtk3-nocsd and reinstalling it again but the error remains. Any clues about this?
Great Work Rudra! Keep it up!
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We now have a platform where you can contribute projects and artwork for Ubuntu Unity & UbuntuEd - The Open Source Hub at http://foss.ubuntuunity.org
&
A proper discussion forum (much like Ubuntu Discourse) at http://foss.ubuntuunity.org/forums
There are direct links to these on our website (ubuntuunity.org).
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Thank you so much for this remix! I have been using it as my daily driver on 4 different machines. It has replaced Mint 19 cinnamon. I couldn’t be happier! It’s fast and with nemo as the file manager, this is everything I could have wanted. I give it the edge over cinnamon because the fonts are so crisp and clear. For whatever reason, font rendering in Mint 19 cinnamon was blurry. Definitely not the case, here! Also, this Ubuntu 20 remix is blazing fast on my core 2 duo machines. One of them is a first generation core 2 duo Levono T60 which tops out at 3 GB RAM but with zswap enabled, preload and prelink installed, ananicy nice manager, and using the great discarded and sloth extensions in Chrome, it performs much better than many much newer laptops with Windows 10. Youtube videos are smooth as silk… especially in Firefox… same with Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Kudos and keep up the excellent work!
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Glad to know that it works well for you.You’re welcome, @rs2009! I did have one problem. For some reason, my log files on a couple of machines got very large over the first few days of use and the systems would no longer boot. After manually deleting the file by booting from a thumb drive, I fixed the problem using the busybox method described at the following link:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/515146/very-large-log-files-what-should-i-do
I also limited the largest size the journal files could ever get by editing the /etc/systemd/journald.conf file such that SystemMaxUse=50M
Finally, the system errors are annoying so I turned them off with the following the instructions at the following link:
https://vitux.com/how-to-disable-enable-automatic-error-reporting-in-ubuntu-18-04-lts/
You may consider making these defaults to improve the user experience. It would also be a nice touch to add My-Weather-Indicator by default. The autostart tick box within the app doesn’t work but adding the binary to the unity startup does work. I got it from here:
https://github.com/atareao/my-weather-indicator
Cheers!
coaxguy99
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Haven’t seen any activity for the past several days. Please keep this flavor alive! It is amazing.
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Ubuntu Unity 20.04.1 Released
Ubuntu Unity 20.04.1 Focal Fossa is now available and can be downloaded from:
MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/HFRkFQKR#Qjw8s_YpdxyXVJjHZUVBjA
Please check https://ubuntuunity.org/2020/08/06/ubuntu-unity-20-04-1-released/ for the release notes.
Ubuntu Unity 20.04.1 Focal Fossa can also now be downloaded from:
- The mirror at http://linux.darkpenguin.net/distros/ubuntu-unity/
- Torrent: https://k-jtan.ca/torrents/distributions/ubuntu-unity/
- MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/HFRkFQKR#Qjw8s_YpdxyXVJjHZUVBjA
- MediaFire: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/oeyzf4v5ejej9/Unubuntu
Release Notes: https://ubuntuunity.org/2020/08/06/ubuntu-unity-20-04-1-released/
Closed Issues: https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/ubuntu-unity-issues/-/milestones/1
Please log any new issues/bugs that you find during testing at https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/ubuntu-unity-issues/-/issues/.
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I have installed a newer version of this Remix [20.04.1] on a VM and I have noticed some changes since the last version.
First, I noticed the installer welcome message was revamped, which I think is cool.
And also, the default lock screen image has changed too, and in which I think is cool too!
Then, I also noticed the ISO image is smaller. The previous release was 3 GB, now 2 GB.
Later, I realized some GNOME apps were removed, probably for people who confuse the two duplicate, and different apps, or probably for people who wanted to save space.
As you can see, GNOME Files are gone, only the Unity one is there
Also for those curious, the GNOME Settings is gone too, only the Unity one.
Anyway, I think this remix is cool. Once I get a new SSD soon, I may make this my main OS!
Also, there may be bugfixes on this update that I may not know as I just got this update recently.
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Hello there, thank you for your work.
What are the differences between this distro and the default one with manually installing unity ?
I’m also using Unity but just downloaded the default come with GNome and replace it with unity by myself.