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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!