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by merlijn_s 3265 days ago
One of the big issues with their attempt was ~0 support or documentation for porting existing applications. Everything was focused around building an Ubuntu app from scratch using their custom qtquick-based SDK, but that's not what we needed.

edit: for more info: This guy made a beautiful summary of the issues with the dev experience around Ubuntu (Touch): http://www.lieberbiber.de/2017/06/20/my-ubuntu-for-mobile-de... [starts from 6. "The life of an app developer was too hard."]
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wmf 3265 days ago
Since this thread is about the desktop, don't existing GNOME apps just work under Unity Desktop?
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michaelmrose 3265 days ago
Yes generally all apps designed for any desktop environment just work in others so long as supporting libraries are installed.

A few points of division are pulseaudio and wayland. Pretty much everybody now uses pulse and while most apps will work in wayland I don't know of any that require it yet.

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