Comment 306 for bug 668415

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Tal Liron (emblem-parade) wrote :

@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
https://launchpad.net/~ikarosdev/+archive/unity-revamped

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.