On 9 December 2012 22:10, Britt Yazel <bwya...@gmail.com> wrote: > The one thing that Elementary has done extremely well is the creation of > their own DE called Pantheon. They have created more than just a shell for > Gnome3 (not to belittle what Unity has done), but they have also rebuilt > most of their underlying technologies as well to fit exactly their purpose, > rather than relying on Gnome. Gala is one such example, to remove their > dependence on Compiz. They have also made many of their own default > applications to fit THEIR purpose, rather than trying to make their purpose > fit a wide assortment of apps. (Midori, Maya, Noise, Scratch, etc) > > Now, I dont mean to belittle Gnome or Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu on a daily basis > and love it greatly, and I also help with the Ubuntu Gnome Remix. I just > think that ridding ourselves of Compiz dependence, and making Unity more > than just the Visual shell, and rather creating more of the back-end > utilities in house (like Gala and Mutter) will lead to a desktop that is > more cohesive, rather than feeling "patchy".
Gala is a GNOME shell built on mutter similar to GNOME Shell or Cinnamon (except that the Cinnamon devs forked an old version of mutter). Jeremy -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
