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[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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