OK, thanks for feedback, so a more correct way to answer this question would be... Gnome 3 is a set of libraries that provides a desktop environment including

OK, thanks for feedback, so a more correct way to answer this question would be... Gnome 3 is a set of libraries that provides a desktop environment including Gnome Shell, the default GUI supplied by Gnome that uses the mutter window manager. Fedora 16 live CD provides an example of a 'standard' Gnome 3/Gnome shell environment. {needs a sentence on indicators/notifications} Ubuntu 11.10 onwards are releasing a subset of the Gnome 3 packages with their own graphical shell called Unity, which uses the compiz windows manager. Unity packages also add a different indicator system for notifications. Gnome Shell and Gnome Shell Session can be installed on Ubuntu which provide the full Gnome environment as an alternative when logging in. Is that closer to the truth? I need some words to describe this accurately as I'm writing about this stuff. Any publicly accessible roadmap for Gnome Shell would help, I think everyone on this forum accepts that Gnome 3 and Unity are works in progress and I certainly look forward to future iterations.