Re: [Ayatana] Graceful degradation of Unity

[Fabrice Rey <fabounet03@xxxxxxxxx>]

In case you don't have compositing at all, Cairo-Dock can run with fake
transparency; however, including a third-party application just to
handle a fallback seems a bit heavy, especially since the gnome-panel
is already included in Ubuntu/Gnome.

2010/12/13 Roth Robert <evfool@xxxxxxxxx>

Metacity does have compositing, and I've read that Docky works with metacity compositing. That could do it, if we need a dock-like interface imitating Unity, but I also think that the classic two gnome-panels is a really good fallback, for legacy users and users who don't like nor the Gnome Shell neither Unity. There still are some of these...

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Alin-Andrei <nilarimogard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 19:18, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

oooopss

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 17:45, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Mark,

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 17:35, Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 agree.
It used to be X or CLI. Now we're a bit better than that i guess.
Docky is an excellent alternative, if only it could use Compiz' Scale plugin when you click an app icon for the second time..
That would make it consistent with the Unity Launcher, and overall more comfortable.
Minimizing can still be done via Window Decoration, or via right-click context menu.

The default for Workspaces should also be 2 rows and 2 columns, that way we'd have the same Wall.

These are small fixes, i think, which would make the two desktops more alike..

all of that would require compositing.. so i was OT all along.. sorry!

Actually I believe Cairo Dock doesn't necessarily needs compositing.

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