14 DAY TRIAL // Michael Zanetti has had the great pleasure of informing us earlier about the latest features that have been implemented in the Ubuntu's Unity 8 user interface for Desktop and Ubuntu Touch.
Therefore, we can report that Unity 8 has finally received full shell rotation, which landed in the devel version of Ubuntu Touch earlier this week, great enhancements to the inline scope media playback with many contributions from the Media Hub community.
A lot of work has been done to align the features of the Unity Launcher from Unity 7 with Unity 8, and the highly anticipated wiggling alert notification has been finished and it will most probably land in the next days.
"After we've been halting our landing queue for a bit in order to keep the road clear for shell rotation, we've started to work through the queue of approved branches. It contains a variety of bug fixes and test improvements," says Michael Zanetti.
New Alt+tab implementation and Desktop session management coming soon
In addition to the changes mentioned above, it is very important to notice here that the all-new Alt+tab implementation will land soon in the latest Unity 8 code, but it must receive some more interesting features to be released in the wild.
The Unity 8 team has informed us that they are working hard on implementing new features in the Alt+tab functionality, which is getting merged into the Unity 8 code as we speak. They will need a lot of feedback once it's out.
Last but not least, a lot of effort has been put into the session management, which should arrive on the Desktop edition of Ubuntu quite soon, and support has been added for apps to exit gracefully instead of being killed.