Official Name for New Unity UI System

What's the official name for the new Unity UI system? I've seen people use "Unity UI" (as in Unity's tutorial videos), "uGUI", "the new Unity GUI system", etc. I just want to make sure I'm using terminology consistent with Unity in my own documentation.

 

There's no branding name for the new UI. We're consistently referring to it with the term "UI" whereas the old system is consistently referred to with the term "GUI".

"The New UI", "Unity UI", "The UI System" etc. are all fine ways to refer to it.

"uGUI", "Unity GUI", "The New GUI" etc. are bad ways to refer to it since it goes against the conventions we use in the editor, docs, tutorials and website.

 

Thanks!

 

This is rather problematic, since it's impossible to google anything about new UI (or in forums).. most of the queries just return something about old system.

 

I find that if you put UI in quotes ("UI") the results are quite relevant.

I can also see that for things where we do have a branding name (like Shuriken), a lot of forum posts, answers and other resources don't mention that name anyway, so not sure it's very reliable as a search term unless you're OK with excluding the majority of relevant content.

 

It is a bit confusing, but is probably a passing issue with time.

I think the main thing is that legacy is GUI and the new stuff is UI but the terms have been fairly interchangeable in the past while now there has to be a clear distinction between them. I don't really think "The New UI" is a good way to refer to it (even though most people do refer to it that way) because it is a temporary term.

At this point for 4.6+ / 5.0+ basically GUI is for editor stuff while UI is for runtime. Less than ideal, because of their similarities, but I doubt there will be much usage of GUI for realtime scenario's in 5.x (beyond some fringe case custom stuff) and that will likely reduce the confusion quite a bit.

 

Unity3D Graphical User Interface System.

 

If I mention Shuriken people think it's some kind of non sequitur ninja reference.

 

What about Official graphical User Interface for Unity, in short Oguifu. Or what's with TGUIFKAUGUI. The Graphical User Interface formerly known as UGUI ...

No, we really need a codename. It's really curious that nobody official thougth about a codename yet. Since there are some third party gui solutions around, plus there is the old GUI solution too, which is stil available. How did you developers call it internally? Really just UI versus GUI? The new system is the graphical version, so that's a G, the old one was the code version ...

 

Call it Kotetsu.

 

I prefer to use uGUI.

 

uGUI, iGUI... Why not weGUI... Can't we all just get along

 

no, its myGUI.

 

erm.. MyGUI is an UI that has been around awhile and is most famous for its integration into Ogre3D.

Anyway.. does the removal of "G" from the title mean, that the new EventSystem with its new way of doing user input management is part of the "UI" package? And may it replace the "old?" way of using e.g. "Input.GetKey" some day?

 

Hello World

 

I like the new Unity UI. And it's now even it's own forum ;-)

 

Apparently, the EventSystem is part of the Unity UI, whereas UnityEngine.Event is not. (Just to answer my own question)

 

How about uUI?

 

Unity UI it is then

 

Hmmm suddenly I feel very comfortable and warm.

 

Unity is big - so if we go that route, I'd vote for UUI. That would by the acronym for Unity UI. Don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but uGUI with the lowercase U always seemed really weird (I have a theory of how that may have come about but I won't elaborate ;-) ).

But we might all be scanned by the NSA if we use UUI - here's some other meanings:

UUI User-To-User Information
UUI Urge Urinary Incontinence
UUI Union of Unemployed in Iraq
UUI User to User Interface
UUI Universal USB (Universal Serial Bus) Installer
UUI Ultimate User Interface (computing)
UUI Unit Under Inspection

Source: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/UUI

... I guess we're all scanned anyways ... and he, whoa - check it out, this also means:

Ultimate User Interface​

I'll call it UUI from now on (and forget some of those other meanings right now ;-) ).

 

uGUI works for me - I suspect as the older gui solutions deprecate and fall away it will be less of an issue though.

 

I don't think the name is up for debate; it's a little late for that. I just wanted to know the correct name to use in my documentation, and I think we got a sufficiently clear answer from the developer.

 

Call it Francis

 

Sure - I'm referring to the developer. Why are you quoting me?

 

Sorry, I wasn't directing my reply at you; I was just adding your weight as a moderator since this thread has taken on a strange life of its own. I just wanted to know the correct name to use in my documentation.

 

uGui is easy and simple imo.

Its a great name.

 

It's uGUI and the old on that is often call OnGUI is really called imGUI (immediate mode). They talk about all 3 UI systems they had over the time.

 

Nice job on repeating what was already said at least 3 times in the thread.

 

It seems there's some confusion and/or misinformation here.

The new UI is not called uGUI. If you want something resembling a name, call it Unity UI.