Yes, Gnome will still be available as much as KDE and XFCE are available under Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Its Edubuntu which is worrying me as they rely on X
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Joseph Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Is it just me or is this a really stupid move ? >> >> http://www.cio.com.au/article/367050/ubuntu_risky_leap_unity_wayland/ >> >> >> what is wayland and why would they make a ui easier for netbooks when >> everyone else is still on normal pcs :O >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing > [email protected]http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing > [email protected]http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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