Hi All,
I've tried Unity on Maverick by installing the package 'Unity
Interface...'... worked fine though I think it needs some
fine-tuning as some aspects are still counter-intuitive.
What is worrying for me is the seeming fork from Gnome... I hope
that one would still be able to install a plain vanilla gnome
desktop in 11.04.
J
On 11/09/2010 05:41 AM, Daniel wrote:
Another view about wayland...
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ubuntu_embraces_unity_and_wayland_or_gnu_linux_exciting_again
Daniel
IMHO, the announcment was more of a push so that
more people get interested in the Wayland project. Very few
applications are programmed in X nowadays but usually rely on
toolkits like GTK or QT anyway. Unless you need to remote
applications over a network I don't see how normal users will
even realize that they switched display server. There again the
venerable Rasterman of enlightenment fame stated that the X
server has negligable performance penalties compared to other
solutions.
I just think that Shuttleworth jumped the gun in going public on
this for two reasons:
- Work on the main libraries like GTK and QT still needs to
be done to first come close to feature completeness let
alone performance and stability
- A compatability X11 layer needs to be built for
applications which are pure X applications and don't rely on
a toolkit to be displayed
Given the current timelines, it will probably take at least 2-3
more Ubuntu releases to make its way to users.
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