[Klug-general] Is anyone using Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) yet?

[Peter Frost]

It's worth noting, I think, that Unity isn't a replacement for Gnome - it
replaces Gnome Shell (which admittedly is a pretty big chunk of Gnome). It
still makes use of the Gnome 3 backend stuff and one assumes Canonical
might contribute enhancements for that.

Pete

On 19/01/2011 16:37, "James Blake" <jimmyblake at gmail.com> wrote:

>Canonical certainly do contribute less upstream than someone like Red Hat
>but from what I've read Unity will available to anyone who wants to
>implement it or build on top of it.
>
>Linux is all about choice, much as I can't get my head around Unity at
>the moment more choice is only a bad thing in that it divides development
>effort.
>
>I haven't really found a desktop I like yet, but I'm a usability facist!
>
>James
>
>
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>--  
>Sent from the mobile device of James Blake
>
>On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> One of the persistent criticisms of the ubuntu project in general is
>>that it has not been a good player in terms of being a contributor
>>upstream.  I've seem refutations of this - but this appears to be a case
>>in point.  No doubt there will be more denials.  Is happens to be true
>>that collaborating with others is generally not the fastest or most
>>efficient way of getting exactly what you want.  So if you are the sort
>>of person (or organisation) that knows your believe you know what you
>>want then doing your own thing will naturally be preferable to you. That
>>such an approach is more akin to dictatorship than 'ubuntu' is, perhaps,
>>unfortunate.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 19/01/11 13:39, Dan Attwood wrote:
>>> I'm not sure we'll ever truly know the answer to that, we'll just be
>>> able to read the abundant speculation and exercise our choice
>>> 
>>>    You're right - so the question is, why isn't Ubuntu simply
>>>    contributing to Gnome 3??
>>> 
>>> 
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