Getting rid of Unity?

[Liam Proven]

On 30 April 2011 10:15, Isaac Hummel <isaac at daedaleus.com> wrote:
> On 04/30/2011 04:12 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>>
>> Given 11.10 is set to do away with GNOME Classic by default on the CD
>> and instead going to Unity 2D as the fallback, you might want to
>> consider your options.
>>
>>
>> Al.
>
> Then won't there be a Gnome variant like there's a KDE variant and an XFCE
> variant (Gubuntu? Gnobuntu?)? It would be absurd for Gnome users alone to be
> left out in the cold while KDE and XFCE users aren't.

It's not quite as simple as that.

The GNOME you're used to is GNOME 2. It's dead in the water now - the
GNOME project released GNOME 3 before 11.04 came out.

GNOME 3 is normally used via a fancy compositing interface called the
GNOME Shell, which is more different from GNOME 2 than Unity is. I
think it's one of the reasons Canonical developed Unity.

But it is possible to configure GNOME 3 to look like GNOME 2. It's
what Linux Mint is going to do in its next release or so.

Mint 11 will be out soon - based on Ubuntu 11.04 - but it might still
use GNOME 2.32, the last version of GNOME 2, which came out since
Ubuntu 10.10. Mint 13 will be the Ubuntu 11.10 version and it will use
GNOME 3 but configured with the classic GNOME 2 two-panel look.

Me, I am quite liking Unity 2D so far, and I think I'll stay with it.
It's different and less flexible or customisable, but I was never
/that/ enamoured of GNOME 2. I like vertical panels, for instance, and
have them configured that way on Windows & MacOS. GNOME does not work
well in that orientation at *all*.

I am wondering how long it will take for Unity 2D to catch up with the
standard 3D Unity, and how long until it gets what I consider to be
all the core functionality of the Mac OS X Dock - but it's interesting
and fun.




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