Unity desktop broken in Fildas
I installed Fildas last night and after installing Unity the environment is very broken, with numerous issues. The first thing I noticed is, all of the indicators on the top panel are missing (no clock, network, sound icons etc). The application search returns no results, despite applications being installed. The scaling is very broken in nautilus, which is also the case in the default desktop.
> I installed Fildas last night and after installing Unity the
> environment is very broken, with numerous issues.
Hasn't Unity been discontinued by Canonical in favor of GNOME?
> The scaling is very
> broken in nautilus, which is also the case in the default desktop.
By scaling do you mean that it is too large/small? Is nautilus the only program that has this problem in MATE (the default desktop environment)?
Just need to forget the Unity shell which Ubuntu now defaults to GNOME shell and has abandoned Unity shell since their 17.10.
Hasn't Unity been discontinued by Canonical in favor of GNOME?I installed Fildas last night and after installing Unity the environment is very broken, with numerous issues.
Installing Trisquel mini brought to you with LXDE is always recommended to us, like the Unity shell LXDE has now been thrown and kindly install LXQt instead.
I'm starting a project making mini ISO for Parabola/OpenRC, Devuan/OpenRC, PureOS which they have not yet made mini ISO unlike Trisquel.
By scaling do you mean that it is too large/small? Is nautilus the only program that has this problem in MATE (the default desktop environment)?The scaling is very broken in nautilus, which is also the case in the default desktop.
As Fildas is based on 16.04 where unity is supported, I would still like to use it. Additionally, Unity worked great in the previous version which was based on 14.04.
> Hasn't Unity been discontinued by Canonical in favor of GNOME?
Unity is deprecated as of 18.04, Fildas is based on 16.04 which still has Unity.
The scaling in nautilus is that everything seems too large, and the icon sizes are inconsistant (some appearing larger than others). The issue appears on the 3 environments I have tested in Fildas; which are MATE, Unity, and Gnome.
Here you can see both the cosmetic issues with nautilus (which seem to be with many applications but also goes away if I change the theme) and the missing unity components.
> The first thing I noticed is, all of the
> indicators on the top panel are missing (no clock, network, sound icons
> etc). The application search returns no results, despite applications being
> installed.
I just installed Unity and have the same experience. I have submitted a bug report.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24140
> The scaling is very broken in nautilus, which is also the case in
> the default desktop.
It seems that the "Trisquel" icon theme displays correctly in GTK2 programs but incorrectly in GTK3 programs, which is why MATE utilities like Caja look fine but GNOME utilities like Nautilus have the sizing issue. Using gnome-tweak-tool to change the GTK3 icon theme to Tango fixed this (for me) in Unity. I've made a bug report for this too.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24141
Thanks for spotting these issues.
Trisquel's icon theme is the problem. An easy workaround is to change that theme. To easily do so, install "GNOME Tweak Tool" (the package bears the same name), launch it and, in Appearance, select another theme for "Icons". If you like Trisquel's, choose "Gnome-brave", which is very similar.
Great suggestion, after using GNOME Tweak Tool to change the Icons theme to Gnome-brave, everything looks much more consistent and less wacky.
Running Qt-written small desktops is also recommending to the rest people, LXQt (BOTH Parabola, PureOS, Devuan, Trisquel), Liri (Parabola only, using Wayland protocol that needs SDDM or GDM), Openbox/KDE (PureOS, Devuan, Trisquel only)
Similar issue?
See attached screenshot.
The icon problem is one of the issues, and changing the theme DOES fix it. The bigger problem is that the top bar in Unity is totally vacant, and the package required to make applications appear in the dash depends on a version of a package that isn't in the repo.
Hey @devian I just wanted to share that I think I solved my issues completely with my Trisquel 8 upgrades on two of my computers. I think this technique might help you.
I did a clean install using a separate drive to test if it was an issue with upgrading. All of the problems persist despite being a fresh install. It seems to me to be an issue with fildas, not the upgrade process. I've reinstalled Trisquel 7 for the time being.
I'm curious, If you want to use Unity, why not install it after upgrading to Trisquel 8 from Trisquel 7? Surely that must be possible.
Unity is broken on clean installs. Unity is broken on upgraded installs. Unity is simply not in a usable state in Trisquel 8.
The feature I like most about Unity is the Apple Spotlight-like search. I was able to get that functionality by installing Synapse. For the App dock, I used to use Plank or Docky.
Is it possible to use Yunit on Trisquel 8? Could this be a work-around?
It may be worth a shot. I did see Unity 8 in the repo, but it depends on packages that are missing from the repo. I did think to try Yunit, but the website was down at that time.
Fear no more, we fixed the issue, :-)
https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/merge_requests/203
You have to wait until the new package is built (version 7.4.5+16.04.20180221-0ubuntu1+8.0trisquel3) and just update the system as always (^_^)b
Great work guys! I can't wait to upgrade :)
It's been quite awhile and my test VM hasn't gotten an update to fix it.
My apologies, even if the helper to build the package has been merged, we have to wait until there is a new version of unity upstream to trigger the package building process; and alternative would be that one of the "core developers" triggers the package build themselves.
I will try to make a script fix the issue tomorrow and share it.
Well, this is the script I promised. Try it and tell me if it fixed the issue :-)
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For some reason I get a 403 forbidden when clicking the attachment.