Unity desktop and maverick backport

[Jono Bacon]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 21:24 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
> > Yeah, but the good 2D experience is really just a fall back to Gnome 2.X
> > panel, and the current Ubuntu desktop. It will be good to have this fall
> > back well tested, but that doesn't help us test Unity.
> 
> Sorry for the tangent but I could not find more information about this 
> online: is the Unity UI fundamentally tied to 3D acceleration support 
> and compositing? IMHO if it was technically possible it would be more 
> uniform to have the 2D experience built on the same new UI/UX concepts 
> just a bit less visually intense, much like the 'desktop effects' 
> setting used to provide more or less the same UI with various degrees of 
> glitz.

Today Unity currently relies on 3D acceleration support AFAIK. As for a
2D equivalent that uses the same UI components, I think this is a better
question for the Ayatana list - https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

	Jono

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