Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 10:15 -0900, Jef Spaleta wrote:

> >
> required patches to gtk and core gnome components that are not
> acceptable to upstream are basically a non-starter.  It maybe possible
> to get some variant of Unity packaged and operational without those
> patches. But such a version might suffer some operational loss compare
> to the one offered by Ubuntu. I'm not sure its in anyone's best
> interest for us to offer a version we know is crippled just to say we
> were offering it at all. I don't think that's fair to users nor to the
> developers. And I'm not particularly thrilled when I see other
> distributors making the choice to ship crippled variants of
> competitor's offerings, so I wouldn't want Fedora to do it.

The app menu work that has recently landed in GTK+ is partially an
effort to get some of these patches upstream. Hopefully, unity will be
ported to use the upstreamed API at some point.