Unity Desktop Environment

voland62 · February 8, 2023, 1:56pm

Any plans to add resurrected Unity (DE aka Graphical Shell) as an option along with Gnome and KDE?

jtojnar · February 8, 2023, 2:12pm

There are some PRs linked in this issue: RFP: Lomiri (Unity8) desktop environment · Issue #99090 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

OPNA2608 · February 9, 2023, 5:30pm

I think this refers to Unity7 (https://unityd.org/) instead of Unity8/Lomiri (https://lomiri.com/)? They’re different projects.

Unity7 doesn’t have an open RFP yet, afaict.

voland62 · February 9, 2023, 6:17pm

Yep. I’m about refreshed Unity7. It’s actually better for typists then GNOME or KDE(IMHO), so it would be a hit if it would be adopted for NixOS…

raoul · January 22, 2024, 11:08am

Hi! Would it be possible to run Lomiri as desktop on Nixos at the moment? Thanks

OPNA2608 · January 22, 2024, 2:16pm

Not at the moment, I’d say we’re about ~~3-4~~ 5-6? dependencies away from a barebones Lomiri shell & module on master though. Just need to annoy some ppl for reviews.

Progress on Lomiri/UBports related packaging is being tracked in:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/260859

raoul · January 22, 2024, 4:30pm

Great that sounds hopeful. Good overview thanks for that!