The document summarizes the history of Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment from its debut in 2010 to its end in 2017. It started as an interface for netbooks and became Ubuntu's default desktop in 2011. Unity aimed for convergence across devices but ultimately failed to gain significant mobile usage. In 2017, Canonical announced it would shift Ubuntu back to GNOME and end development of Unity and the Mir display server. While some efforts have emerged to continue Unity, it and the Ubuntu mobile project were ultimately shut down.

1. Ubuntu’s Unity
Birth to Death
(in 5minutes)
Youngbin Han - launchpad.net/~sukso96100
Leader, Ubuntu Korea Community
(This slide includes individual opinion)

2. Until Ubuntu 10.04 - Gnome 2.x
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/ubuntu-10-04-4-released

3. Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition - Unity’s first debut
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Ubuntu_10.10_Maverick_Meerkat_Netbook_Live_USB.png

4. – https://unity.ubuntu.com/about/
“Founded in 2010, the Unity project started by Mark
Shuttleworth and Canonical has gone on to deliver a consistent
user experience for desktop and netbook users alike. Putting
great design at the heart of the project, Unity and its
technologies such as Application indicators, System indicators,
and Notify OSD, have strived to solve common problems in the
Free Software desktop while optimizing the experience for
touch, consistency and collaboration.”

5. From Ubuntu 11.04 - Ubuntu’s Default Desktop Environment
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/dash.jpg

6. Ubuntu 12.04
First LTS after
Debut of Unity

7. Ubuntu Touch
(for Phones & Tablets)
Early 2013

8. https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/

9. Unity 8(Unity Next)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gXaf08GTI

10. Convergence!!!

11. Cordova on Ubuntu Touch
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/apps/html-5/guides/cordova-guide/

12. Mir Display Server
Not Wayland?

13. Meanwhile…
…in Unity7
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/08/how-to-disable-gtk3-client-side.html

14. Meanwhile…
…in Unity7
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/11/fix-large-black-borders-around-header.html

15. –Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical
“I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in
Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our
default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.”
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/

16. Future of Linux Desktop
The GNOME Empire!!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/itsfoss/photos/a.182637675210341.43761.115098615297581/881275025346599/?type=3&theater

17. Yunit [unit]
Fork of Unity 8
https://yunit.io

18. R.I.P.
Mir

19. https://ubports.com/

20. R.I.P.
Unity 7
R.I.P.
Unity 8
R.I.P.
Ubuntu
Touch
R.I.P.
Mir

21. The End.