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No, it is not.

• progrock 14y ago
  If Unity is described as a Shell for the GNOME desktop environment. Then that sounds about right to me. Perhaps better questions to ask would be what is Gnome 3? What is Gnome Shell? And what is Gnome? Sorry but it's a bit difficult to comment on Gnome when it's not entirely clear as to what it is.
• keithpeter 14y ago
  I think Unity depends on a fair amount of gnome 3 libraries, at least in 12.04
  • ralfn 14y ago
    Yes and no. They ship with a lot of gnome3 apps, but none of the unity code uses any gnome 3 libs. They do use compiz though, and have compiz use the gconf settings. The thing is, they could switch to a qt based desktop, without touching any unity code.
• padraigm 14y ago
  This is false. Unity is an alternative to Gnome-shell; it uses (sometimes patched versions of) the same underlying Gnome 3 libraries.
  • sciurus 14y ago
    Or it's true. GNOME doesn't present itself as a set of libraries, it presents itself as a desktop shell and set of applications. http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/ http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/