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[Spike Burch <spikeb@xxxxxxxxx>]

What I would do, although this is duplicating effort in the long run,
is write a 2d version of unity using EFL, just like they did with the
old netbook interface

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, 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.
>
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