On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Mark Curtis <merkin...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Unity requires 3d compositing. For those without adequate hardware, it > falls back to the GNOME Panels. While I understand for this cycle effort > should be put into getting Unity functioning, I think for the future a > better fallback should be created. For one the GNOME Panels won't be > supported forever so it's not a viable alternative in the long run. Two, > the UI change from Unity/Panels is drastic. Look at Windows 7, if the user > can't enable the compositing, the UI is still similar, it doesn't reset to > an XP style of UI.
I don't agree, at least for the moment. In the future where the Unity look is an ingrained part of the Ubuntu brand, I'd agree that there should be a better fall-back for machines which still don't support Unity's technical requirements. However, for the moment the gnome-panels are part of the Ubuntu brand and Unity is the new-fangled outlier, which some users and vocal critics consider to be inferior to the gnome-panels. Maintaining an excellent legacy Gnome interface will help ensure continuity from previous releases or users who cannot use Unity, and I haven't seen any argument that creating a Unity-like fallback which would have to pursue a moving target would be worth the time it would take to develop. Ryan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
