{"id":165,"date":"2014-05-02T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/btdesigns.geosolutionskenya.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2014-05-26T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T14:19:47","slug":"unity8-mir-desktop-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Unity8-Mir Desktop Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed the preview and I think I like it, me thinks. It has a long way to go though. Its advance prospective features may take Canonical time and\/or great fixes to make it the greatness it is rather fighting for in the convergence space.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/btdesigns.geosolutionskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/unity8-greeter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/btdesigns.geosolutionskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/unity8-greeter.jpg\" alt=\"The Session Selector\" width=\"572\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/unity8-greeter.jpg 572w, https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/unity8-greeter-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Session Selector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><!--more-->Unity 8 apps are running fine, with some bugs, as you would expect. Some don&#8217;t even open. This should not startle anyone however. I love the animations that seek to be as smooth as possible. Dont forget it is a preview. It will definitely improve as time goes by.<br \/>\nAfter I read Joey-Sneddon&#8217;s post on omgubuntu.co.uk about the issues one is to expect, I went ahead to test it out for my self. There is still a lot of work to be done, as i noticed, with the touch-pad\/mouse interactions with the Unity screen elements. It was rather uncomfortable to carry out some maneuvers. Such that made me opt back into Unity 7(default on 14.04 LTS). I would expect the experience to be somewhat acceptable on the touch devices. As primarily, the interface was aimed at Ubuntu Touch. But lets give the works-man his due. The Interface has a long way to go, but a fresh breathe of unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just installed the preview and I think I like it, me thinks. It has a long way to go though. Its advance prospective features may take Canonical time and\/or great fixes to make it the greatness it is rather fighting for in the convergence space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ubuntu-14-04","post_format-post-format-image"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reflexconcepts.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}