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Can anyone point me to a good architecture/dev overview of Gnome Shell and Unity ? I find it hard to sift out the marketing from the tech in what Ive seen.
by gord 16y ago
Can anyone point me to a good architecture/dev overview of Gnome Shell and Unity ? I find it hard to sift out the marketing from the tech in what Ive seen.
- sciurus 16y agoUnity is a plugin for the compiz window manager. https://lwn.net/Articles/430686/ https://lwn.net/Articles/430686/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Unity_Architecture.pdf https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity?action=AttachFile&do=get&#...
- gord 16y agothx, I do trust LWN to give us the gist.
- beantree 16y agoGNOME Shell is the window manager (and some would argue a little bit more) for GNOME3. The GNOME wiki is a good place to start. A mostly up-to-date design overview is available at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/ https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/ A technical overview can be found at Owen Taylor's blog http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gnome-shell/ http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gn... It's old, from when the shell was just being planned, but all the major architectural decisions are there.