I think this plea from you is the most succinct summary we've seen of the attitude problem:
"I hope that canonical can be a bit less dogmatic and a bit more pragmatic."
A quick update: Issac Joseph has created a project called "Unity Revamped" which seems to address some of these pragmatic concerns (though it doesn't incorporate the movable-Launcher patch):
As I mentioned before, forks of Unity are not great solutions: the burden is on the dev to keep merging in the mainline code and testing it thoroughly before each release. I find it unfeasible in the long run, unless the Unity team itself incorporates these enhanced versions into their main dev/test process. Mark's comment about celebrating forks is thus a bit glib -- and non-pragammatic.
@Axel Napolitano
I think this plea from you is the most succinct summary we've seen of the attitude problem:
"I hope that canonical can be a bit less dogmatic and a bit more pragmatic."
A quick update: Issac Joseph has created a project called "Unity Revamped" which seems to address some of these pragmatic concerns (though it doesn't incorporate the movable-Launcher patch):
https:/ /launchpad. net/~ikarosdev /launchpad. net/~ikarosdev/ +archive/ unity-revamped
https:/
As I mentioned before, forks of Unity are not great solutions: the burden is on the dev to keep merging in the mainline code and testing it thoroughly before each release. I find it unfeasible in the long run, unless the Unity team itself incorporates these enhanced versions into their main dev/test process. Mark's comment about celebrating forks is thus a bit glib -- and non-pragammatic.