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I think this article is too long. Unity is just one Linux shell, I don't think it is notable enough for such detailed coverage. In particular, the "Reception" section is bloated. We don't need a detailed timeline of Unity's reception. I am going to try to prune this section. I ask you to continue my work and prune the rest of the article. -- Jorge ( talk) 11:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Some of the sources are bad. I am studying Wikipedia policy on source reliability and evaluating each source in the Reception section. One source that already stands out is http://desktoplinuxreviews.com. The writer does seem to have professional writing experience (see http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/about/) but it still is a one-person blog with no Wikipedia article about it, a very low Alexa rank (322,029), and no hits in Google Scholar. -- Jorge ( talk) 16:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
I think a To-do_list is good to focus efforts. If you agree on making one, I have some suggestions for the Reception section:
The article has acquired a distinct pro-Unity tone over the years. I don't think this is because of conscious COI editing, rather that Unity has indeed improved somewhat, and people who don't like it have switched to alternatives like LXDE so no longer pay attention. -- Ef80 ( talk) 12:15, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Isn't unity rather a graphical shell then a user interface? User:ScotXW t@lk 16:46, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
I think the "controversy" section could easily be pruned to a more manageable size, rather than consisting of a chronological account of every twist and turn of the issue, but others disagree. Per WP:WEIGHT, individual controversies shouldn't dominate the article. Opinions? Sandstein 16:38, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
Unity is described as "discontinued"? Isn't that slightly premature? According to the announcement announcing Cannonical's abandonment of Unity, it clearly states that Unity will remain Ubuntu's default desktop until the 18.04 release in April of 2018. That means that Unity will remain the default desktop on two forthcoming Ubuntu releases: 17.04 due out April 2017, and 17.10 due out the following October. Furthermore, 16.04 released in April 2016 was an LTS release, so my expectation is that some amount of latent Unity maintenance development should continue until April 2021, while active Unity development should continue (to some extent) until October 2017. While I don't expect any earthshattering advances in Unity in the next 6 months, it seems a bit soon to call it "discontinued". Am I way off base? Linux dr ( talk) 03:53, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
I almost want to suggest the term "lame duck" but I've only seen that used to describe persons holding an office of some sort. Linux dr ( talk) 03:56, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Tagging recent editor, as this is relevant to their changes: Rezonansowy Linux dr ( talk) 04:03, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
In addition to Unity, there are Application Indicators and other projects such as MeMenu, the notification system and the application NotifyOSD gathered.
Gathered? I was not expecting that verb, there, hard stop. — MaxEnt 00:53, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
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I think this article is too long. Unity is just one Linux shell, I don't think it is notable enough for such detailed coverage. In particular, the "Reception" section is bloated. We don't need a detailed timeline of Unity's reception. I am going to try to prune this section. I ask you to continue my work and prune the rest of the article. -- Jorge ( talk) 11:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Some of the sources are bad. I am studying Wikipedia policy on source reliability and evaluating each source in the Reception section. One source that already stands out is http://desktoplinuxreviews.com. The writer does seem to have professional writing experience (see http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/about/) but it still is a one-person blog with no Wikipedia article about it, a very low Alexa rank (322,029), and no hits in Google Scholar. -- Jorge ( talk) 16:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
I think a To-do_list is good to focus efforts. If you agree on making one, I have some suggestions for the Reception section:
The article has acquired a distinct pro-Unity tone over the years. I don't think this is because of conscious COI editing, rather that Unity has indeed improved somewhat, and people who don't like it have switched to alternatives like LXDE so no longer pay attention. -- Ef80 ( talk) 12:15, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Isn't unity rather a graphical shell then a user interface? User:ScotXW t@lk 16:46, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
I think the "controversy" section could easily be pruned to a more manageable size, rather than consisting of a chronological account of every twist and turn of the issue, but others disagree. Per WP:WEIGHT, individual controversies shouldn't dominate the article. Opinions? Sandstein 16:38, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
Unity is described as "discontinued"? Isn't that slightly premature? According to the announcement announcing Cannonical's abandonment of Unity, it clearly states that Unity will remain Ubuntu's default desktop until the 18.04 release in April of 2018. That means that Unity will remain the default desktop on two forthcoming Ubuntu releases: 17.04 due out April 2017, and 17.10 due out the following October. Furthermore, 16.04 released in April 2016 was an LTS release, so my expectation is that some amount of latent Unity maintenance development should continue until April 2021, while active Unity development should continue (to some extent) until October 2017. While I don't expect any earthshattering advances in Unity in the next 6 months, it seems a bit soon to call it "discontinued". Am I way off base? Linux dr ( talk) 03:53, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
I almost want to suggest the term "lame duck" but I've only seen that used to describe persons holding an office of some sort. Linux dr ( talk) 03:56, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Tagging recent editor, as this is relevant to their changes: Rezonansowy Linux dr ( talk) 04:03, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
In addition to Unity, there are Application Indicators and other projects such as MeMenu, the notification system and the application NotifyOSD gathered.
Gathered? I was not expecting that verb, there, hard stop. — MaxEnt 00:53, 11 February 2021 (UTC)