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[Carl Ansell <afccarl1994@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unity is a Compiz plugin.

> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:22:15 +0100
> From: supernova.it@xxxxxxxxx
> To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ayatana] why compiz in place of mutter
> 
> Goodmorning (GMT+1) to all. Yesterday I tried Precise, and it works
> very good. I have seen that it is a bit slower and more fat than the
> gnome-shell, as it happened for 11.10, 11.04, ... . I guess it is due
> to compiz, which is more heavy than mutter. Why don't use mutter then?
> Unity doesn't use effects as rotation and wobbly. So mutter could be
> sufficient.
> 
> Bests,
> Supernova
> 
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