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On Sat 24 Sep 2011 11:15:43 PM IST, JD Horelick wrote: |
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> On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in |
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>>> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? |
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>> What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or having |
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>> *tried* to use it). |
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>> Once you have, you will see why no one is enthusiastic enough to write |
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>> an ebuild and support it in gentoo (or an overlay). |
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>> I'm just glad that Ubuntu still ships with vanilla Gnome (or "Ubuntu |
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>> Classic") by default -- I maintain a few Ubuntu systems for members of |
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>> my family. |
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It's stunning to know that something that's shipped by default with |
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Ubuntu sucks so much? Canonical surely must have gone haywire. |
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> Just my opinion here, but i've used both Unity and gnome-shell and a |
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> *MUCH* prefer Unity (IMO, I could live with Unity if GNOME2 ever went |
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> away, i know i couldn't live with gnome-shell). It seems to have a |
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> more well thought-out interface, it's getting massive improvements and |
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> it's really sane and non-obtrusive (compared to gnome-shell, I still |
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> prefer a "traditional desktop experience"). |
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I don't like gnome-shell either, tried it on Fedora Live. |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |
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