Originally posted by vinnywright
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Fall Back mode (what looks like GNOME 2) is going away in GNOME 3.8. Mostly because the requirement of having accelerated graphics will be dropped; Mutter (the GNOME window manager) will be extended to work with LLVM (which provides CPU-based compositing). -
Unity, in and of itself, is not too bad. But you can't help but look at it and compare it to Gnome 3/Shell, and wonder why they needed to do it. They are different in some ways, but far too similar in others. I just feel, considering the amount of energy they are putting into Unity, that it would have been better spent in the actual distro itself rather than the interface. I mean, look at this FFS. As a Kubuntu user I had no idea that Ubuntu had borked up such a fundamental part of using the OS. I'm shocked that after all their amazing work over the years, they dropped the ball on this and then still released it. I would have expected to see a tutorial of this nature in 2005, not 2012. Thank God for the sanity of Kubuntu, and I hope this problem doesn't trickle down to us.
Anyway, to me there is nothing about Gnome 3/Shell that they could not have tailored to their requirements to make it more uniquely "Ubuntu" imho. It's a lot of effort for what real gain?PUNCH IT CHEWIE!Comment
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