Feature changed by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Feature #310804, revision 9 Title: Include Unity as alternative GNOME GUI - openSUSE-11.4: New - Priority - Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Markus K (kamikazow) + Developer: Nelson Marques (ketheriel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Canonical introduced "Unity" with Ubuntu 10.10 as netbook GUI and plans to extend it for desktop use. As Unity is FOSS (GPLv3), Unity can be made available as alternative GUI. + Relations: + - Blog by Nelson Marques (url: + http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/12/17/unity-on-opensuse-maybe/) + - ketheriel home project with some packages (obs/project: home:ketheriel: + ayatana) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Users may want to try different user experiences. Offering Unity as option would be beneficial. Its dependencies are probably all already packaged anyway. Discussion: #1: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) (2010-11-22 03:11:08) A classic advantage to Linux has always been the ability to run it on old systems. By addng this, we would help restore that. #2: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) (2010-11-30 10:38:05) I love this idea. Choice is good, ain't it? Besides, unity seems like an interesting experiment, so I'd love to see it on openSUSE... No reason not to offer our users all the available linux DE's ;-) #3: Koushik Kumar Nundy (kknundy) (2010-11-30 22:02:58) The idea is noteworthy. Unity is appreciably light. Also it is sufficiently capable as GUIs go, if not as pretty. The only major concern might be added overhead/dependencies in the DVD, if Unity is added as default. Also, I am not aware if upstream contrib is sufficient to keep development high. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310804