Please backport unity 7 to Precise

[Marco Gianni]

Hi, as you can see in the title, I want to propose my idea about the current LTS 12.04. With the version 13.04 of Ubuntu, there will be no longer in the future versions Unity- Compiz and others components and the time of support this version is too short ( 9 months ). So, why don't you backport Gnome 3.6.3 [please see bug 1184862] and Unity 7 in Ubuntu 12.04.3?? This update will come out in August right? So there are 4 months after Ubuntu 13.04 to fix other bugs of them (gnome and unity).

There is also another backport that I propose, the backport of the kernel 3.8.0.x ; it has increased the performance of the computers, for me it could be very good to see in the next update of the 12.04 LTS. What about it? [Please see comment 4 in this bug report]

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[Marco Gianni (marcopalmi16)]

Is this idea good for the team? 4 more years of support of Unity-Compiz will be good!!!

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Raring's kernel will eventually be backported to Precise, please see http://askubuntu.com/a/279392 and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack for more information on the timing of that backport.

I am leaving this report open for the unity package. Please open a new bug for Gnome to make processing your backport requests more efficint to handle. However, Gnome may not qualify for a backport due to its large number of dependencies and related packages. Thanks.

[H.-Dirk Schmitt (dirk-computer42)]

Sorry - for me it looks that the raring kernel is already backported to precise.

apt-cache policy linux-image-generic-lts-raring
linux-image-generic-lts-raring:
  Installiert: 3.8.0.22.21
  Kandidat: 3.8.0.22.21
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 3.8.0.22.21 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages

[H.-Dirk Schmitt (dirk-computer42)]

Forked bug report for gnome --> https://bugs.launchpad.net/precise-backports/+bug/1184862

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thanks H.-Dirk for opening a new bug for the Gnome's backport and for checking the status of the kernel's backport. I was dual booting on Windows so I couldn't really check the status of Kernel's backport ( the packages.ubuntu.com site does not find any results for linux-image-generic-lts-raring).