Canonical's Working On A Unity 2D Desktop

[curaga]

Why Qt? Why not take advantage of the similar work already done, ie the Enlightenment netbook shell?

[Awesomeness]

Isn't there a clean way to just base both the Unity2D and 3D on Qt, on a way that uses hardware acceleration when available? That would be a lot cleaner, if feasible!

Yes, it would.
But Canonical claims that there is absolutely no accessibility on Linux and they are the heroes to provide it finally which – according to them – makes the Nux-based Unity necessary: http://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2011/...6/#comment-578 (J. Riddel is a Canonical employee)

Why Qt? Why not take advantage of the similar work already done, ie the Enlightenment netbook shell?

Maybe they realized that Qt is better.

[R3MF]

How long before the 3D version of unity is built on QT too?

Makes a lot of sense given the development resources that are poured into QT, they are moving forward, and fast!

[curaga]

http://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2011/...6/#comment-578 (J. Riddel is a Canonical employee)

Maybe they realized that Qt is better.

Huahuahua, that link would explain that perfectly. Whoever is the manager for Unity has ADHD.

[madjr]

I tried getting along with Unity but it didn't work out. Two friends of mine and I have yet to find out how to even configure that thing. The most ridiculous thing is the panel on the left part of the screen. I couldn't figure out how to move it to another place or better yet make it autohide.

the autohide (well something better: intelli-hide) is already working in 11.04 alpha. Works very nicely, but of course not for daily use yet

[madjr]

Am I the only one who thinks this is a terribly confusing name, given that Unity is also the name of a popular game dev platform (if you're on Windows or Mac for now)? Why was this sort of name collision allowed to happen?

i think the worst collisions are the names "windows" and "apples"