Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME
Christian Dysthe
cdysthe at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 13:24:58 UTC 2012
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:30:55 -0500, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ooops, sorry I forgot . Kubuntu is being cut adrift from Ubuntu......)
> BC
> KDE and XFCE do not come into it. Unity is a shell for GNOME.
Unity is a UI interface built as a plug-in for the Open GL compositing
manager Compiz. The one that creates the wobbly windows and other eye
candy. The rest of the Unity environment (file manager and such) is gtk3
based just like the current Gnome 3 dekstop where the UI is called Gnome
Shell.
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//Christian
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