Unity impacts on alternatives

[dronus]

As of Ubuntu 16.04, it is no fun anymore to use any desktop environment except Unity. There is a plethora of problems in Gnome Shell, Gnome Fallback Session, MATE.

While me having no trouble with Unity, I have some usage scenarios that prefer other desktops.

Now more and more apps tend to be use features of Unity and package maintainers doesn't seem to cope with the changes outsite of the Unity environment.

For exmaple: Some apps (nautlilus, control panel, gitg, ....) are using new features (like the launcher icon context menu, mabye first provided by Unity, borderless windows etc.) and do not provide a reliable fallback for old desktops.

So if the new features prove useful, the old desktops should retrofit them somehow. A borderless window should never be shown without resize handles in any environment if it would have some in Unity. If there are new libs for handling this new features, those libs should provide reliable, well tested fallback mechanisms for the older environments.

It is bad to load up the developers of apps with the handling of this new features, as many of them would fall to "new style" promises and would produce Unity-only apps this way.

I am very pissed of by these shortsigthed developments, that lead to Ubuntu being an almost Unity-only system as of 16.04 now, with myriads of problems in any desktop other then Unity.