Canonical Needs Your Help to Finalize the Unity to GNOME Shell Transition

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Canonical’s community manager Alan Pope on Tuesday announced a call for testing where GTK and GNOME Shell themers, as well as CSS experts, are invited to help them finalize the Unity to GNOME Shell transition for Ubuntu 17.10.

As you probably already know by now, Canonical has dropped the development of its GNOME-based Unity user interface for upcoming Ubuntu releases, focusing on a rich GNOME Shell desktop experience for the next major release of the Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark).

Ubuntu 17.10 is currently under heavy development, with a first Beta release knocking at the door at the end of the month, and it now looks like the Ubuntu Desktop team reached a point where they need community’s help to polish the new default GNOME Shell desktop environment.

“With such a significant change, we need all the eyeballs we can get on every part of the desktop experience,” said Alan Pope in a <a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/08/08/ubun… (read…
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