OT: Unity and GNOME 3

[Jon Reagan]

I read in an article recently that there is still a good amount of
work being done to Unity in order to make it much more customizable.
Admittedly, Unity annoys me a bit right now, but I've got my fingers
crossed in hopes that it will become better.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/ubuntu-desktop-designers-clarify-on-configurability/

Jon

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Сергей <shnatsel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suspect that Unity and GNOME 3 will be unaccepted by most Linux users
>> even in the future and I don't think that a GNOME 2 fork will grow up,
>
> You know, over time the new shells will become better, and rolling
> back to something else will become harder. So more and more people
> will just adapt to what they get out of the box. Actually, it already
> shows: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/which-desktop-environment-do-you-use-in-ubuntu-11-10-poll/
> - Unity's Dash is still hardly usable as an application launcher, but
> 48% use it. If Unity gets a decent application launcher (and I'm
> pretty sure it will get one for Precise), it will become even more
> widespread.
>
>> but I guess GNOME 3 will enable a GNOME 2 mode, aka they CAN'T drop
>> fallback mode.
>
> Actually, they can. They are even going to do it.
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMTI
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMjI
> And I have to admit that consistent user experience is a good idea.
>
>> At Debian users mailing list you'll read about users switching from
>> Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora to Debian, just regarding to GNOME 3, since they
>> aren't aware that Debian testing already switched to GNOME 3.
>
> It would be nice to see that crowd switching to elementary OS seeking
> Pantheon Shell :D
>
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