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I can understand his question. I've used Gnome Shell the last months, now with 12.04beta i'm running with Unity for the next weeks. They both have very similar
by buster 15y ago
I can understand his question. I've used Gnome Shell the last months, now with 12.04beta i'm running with Unity for the next weeks. They both have very similar concepts.
In the end, i'll probably go with Gnome Shell, because it's very similar and not some "we'll do our own, screw the rest of the linux comunity" thing. Never got why Canonical just couldn't build on Gnome, Unity would certainly be possible to be built on the foundations of gnome 3.x..
edit: Yes, also https://extensions.gnome.org/ https://extensions.gnome.org/ is pretty neat.
- Smotko 15y agoI agree, Canonical should have made Unity upon gnome 3.x. Those compiz patches and are really nasty.
- cgb 15y agoCompiz also seems to be in trouble: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/apology-2/ http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/apology-2/
- acabal 15y agoIf I'm remembering right, Shuttleworth decided to go his own way because at the time Gnome Shell looked radically different than it does now, and he didn't forsee it--or the political environment around it--improving enough to bother building upon. However since he made that decision and showed some Unity prototypes, the Gnome Shell design did change a lot and now it resembles Unity much more than it did back then.
- macco 15y agoYeah, Canonical wanted to participate in Gnome3, but nobody listened to their complaints about Gnome3.