*Built on top of libmutter
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Brandon Watkins <bwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gala didn't fork mutter afiak, its a new window manager built on top of > window mutter What you describe sounds more like cinnamon, they forked both > mutter and gnome-shell into muffin/cinnamon. afiak thats not what > elementary does. > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
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