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[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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