Objectives for Oneiric - Brainstorming

Jim Campbell jwcampbell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 03:08:24 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Kyle Nitzsche
<kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com>wrote:

>  Does this mean that the present contents of ubuntu-docs is mostly
>> deprecated now? I'm not clear on what the difference is between Unity 2D and
>> the classic Gnome desktop.
>>
>
> unity-2d is a unity-like desktop for systems that don't support hardware
> accelerated 3D, as I understand it. For example, it may be appropriate for
> ARM systems.
>
> unity-2d is not the classic gnome desktop. Its UI is very much like, but
> not identical to, unity
>


That's correct. There's a PPA for Unity-2d for this cycle, but for 11.10 it
will be the "fallback" UI when someone's computer can't run the default
Unity setup.

Jim
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