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Whether you like it or not, power users are probably the only audience left for a linux DE that's no longer the default on the most newbie friendly distro's. T
by ilja 14y ago
Whether you like it or not, power users are probably the only audience left for a linux DE that's no
longer the default on the most newbie friendly distro's. The rest of the world is never going to see it.
Open source is very much about scratching one's own itch
- progrock 14y agoIsn't Unity currently built on top of Gnome 3?
- entropy_ 14y agoNo, it is not.
- progrock 14y agoIf 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 agoI think Unity depends on a fair amount of gnome 3 libraries, at least in 12.04
- ralfn 14y agoYes 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 agoThis is false. Unity is an alternative to Gnome-shell; it uses (sometimes patched versions of) the same underlying Gnome 3 libraries.
- sciurus 14y agoOr 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/
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