Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak has landed and brings with it the Unity 8 technical preview desktop session. Unity 8 has been the face of the Ubuntu phoneand tablet for a few years and has quickly evolved its convergence feature set to allow it to work seamlessly between form factors such as phones, tablets and desktops. You can now chose to log in to a Unity 8 session directly from the greeter.
You can install and use legacy “xorg” apps on Unity 8 Desktop Session on Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.10 comes with an optional Unity 8 pre-installed. Using Unity 8 on a Ubuntu 16.10 machine is actually a good experience. You can install more ‘Snap’ apps, like photo gallery, from the command line using: sudo snap install --edge --devmode gallery-app But what happens when you need the classic apps that we all know?
<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Deprecate gnome-session and use upstart/systemd as the root process </li> <li> Deprecate gnome-screensaver (following upstream) and unify screensaver management into the shell </li> <li> Deprecate policykit-gnome and use the shell for PolicyKit handling in both Unity 7 and Unity 8 </li> <li> Deprecate unity-settings-daemon by decoupling the plugins and migrating to new services </li> <li> Add more desktop capabilities in Ubuntu System Settings to replace unity-control-center </li> <li> Enhance the core apps to replace current defaults e.