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Carl, I have filed a bug. But when I install Gnome Panel on, say, 12.10 
and an underlying change to Ubuntu breaks it, who do I file the bug 
report with when no one is maintaining Gnome Panel?

I have not said "don't do Unity". I have requested Gnome Panel be 
maintained for those who adopted Ubuntu because of Gnome Panel (it has 
become synonymous with Ubuntu obviously), and leave Unity on a separate 
track for those who want it (on any form factor). Unity 2D should not 
even be necessary if this is done.

Hopefully some distro will take up that Gnome Panel maintenance 
challenge, because Gnome and Canonical both seem to want to go in the 
same direction (even while sniping with each other about it in the 
blogosphere).

My constructive criticisms for Unity would boil down to A) make it at 
least as configurable as Gnome 2.x (which is setting the bar low IMHO) 
and B) don't make it a replacement for anything when it is still 
half-baked. I don't understand why anyone would need to ~tell~ Canonical 
this however.

And honestly, if Canonical wants to change the applet / indicator 
experience and breaks, maybe Canonical should do the porting of existing 
applets. Nobody asked Canonical to break things to differentiate themselves.


On 04/04/2011 08:02 PM, Carl Simpson wrote:
> This is something that gets said again and again, but...  Unity is 
> essentially an option just like AWN is an option, GNOME Panel is an 
> option, Docky is an option, etc.  Unity doesn't make any of those go 
> away.  If you want to customise the default experience to use a single 
> GNOME Panel, instead of Unity, then /do that/.
>
> In the meantime, constructive suggestions of how to improve the choice 
> that is Unity (something other than "don't do Unity and just opt for 
> my customisations instead", preferably) would be real welcome on this 
> list, I think.
>
> If Talika (whatever that is) is breaking on Natty classic, but does 
> not break in default Maverick, then there's a bug somewhere, because 
> classic is just a GNOME session as per previous Ubuntu releases.  File 
> a bug.
>
> Even come Oneiric, when the GNOME 2 interface wont be included on the 
> disc, it aught ought be installable and it ought to work just the way 
> it always did.