Short version: Possible UI cairo-dock/Unity/compiz

[Luke Kuhn]

The list moderator has the longer message with several screenshots, I will try sending one small version, featuring the GTK3 apps, and scaled down to stay small for the list.

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> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:31:02 +0000
> From: Luke Kuhn <lukekuhn at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: Short version: Possible UI cairo-dock/Unity/compiz
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> A longer version of this with screenshots was too big for the list, so here's the short of it:
> Here's my suggestion for the next UI, I am using a version of it right now.
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> Cairo-dock with main menu button on the left, icon for menus ubuntustudio button.  This ishow I got back the full Ubuntustudio menus that are lost in both gnome-shell and Unity.
> Compiz/Unity, compiz outperforms Mutter  and is more configurable
> Apply my bugfix in ubuntustudio-look to get white text in Unity:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-look/+bug/741331
> Port ubuntustudio theme to include gtk3, I am using a rough version but have gtk2 and gtk 3 apps looking almost alike.
> When GNOME 3's version of nautilus is brought in, set it to manage the desktop and draw icons, will work essentially the same as the previous nautilus. I am using it now, along with GNOME3 versions of everything I use for which they are available except GDM and the network manager. I can run Unity or gnome-shell with almost identical function and nearly the same appearance. 		 	   		  
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> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:46:59 -0400
> From: Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: Short version: Possible UI cairo-dock/Unity/compiz
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> i would like to see a screenshot... you could use imagebin... try and come
> to #ubuntustudio-devel , we are in the beginnings of moving forward to XFCE,
> so now is the time to actively share you findings... and thanks for working
> on this... even if we go with XFCE, we will need things like this for folks
> to use unity, and having them up front and documented and well supported
> would be great...
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Luke Kuhn <lukekuhn at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >  A longer version of this with screenshots was too big for the list, so
> > here's the short of it:
> >
> > Here's my suggestion for the next UI, I am using a version of it right now.
> >
> > Cairo-dock with main menu button on the left, icon for menus ubuntustudio
> > button.  This is
> > how I got back the full Ubuntustudio menus that are lost in both
> > gnome-shell and Unity.
> >
> > Compiz/Unity, compiz outperforms Mutter  and is more configurable
> >
> > Apply my bugfix in ubuntustudio-look to get white text in Unity:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-look/+bug/741331
> >
> > Port ubuntustudio theme to include gtk3, I am using a rough version but
> > have
> > gtk2 and gtk 3 apps looking almost alike.
> >
> > When GNOME 3's version of nautilus is brought in, set it to manage the
> > desktop and draw icons, will
> > work essentially the same as the previous nautilus. I am using it now,
> > along with GNOME3 versions
> > of everything I use for which they are available except GDM and the network
> > manager. I can run
> > Unity or gnome-shell with almost identical function and nearly the same
> > appearance.
> >
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