[OT] Gnome3 Desktop For Ubuntu?

[Alan Pope]

Hi,

On 12 May 2011 17:37, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been googling around to try and find out if Ubuntu is to have
> Gnome3 in due course, and what I have found seems to suggest that the
> Unity desktop that comes with Natty is only an interim development and
> that in due course we are to have the Gnome desktop if not Gnome3 with
> Ubuntu.
>

Firstly lets be clear GNOME 3 does not equal GNOME Shell. GNOME Shell
is the next generation user interface shipped with GNOME 3.

> Can anyone conclusively say one way or the other which direction Ubuntu
> is to go in?
>

Ubuntu 11.04 ships with Unity as a shell on top of GNOME 2. Fall back
(for non-3D capable computers) is GNOME 2 in a 2-panel mode - "GNOME
Classic".

Ubuntu 11.10 is planned to ship with Unity as a shell on top of GNOME
3. Fall back (for non-3d capable computers) is Unity 2D on top of
GNOME 3.

> I am asking this because I have been using Gnome3 and I quite like it
> but it has got one or two "wrinkles" that need learning if you're used
> to the Gnome2 desktop interface.
>

I guess you mean "I have been using GNOME Shell on top of GNOME 3".

> If not, then the introduction of the Unity desktop as its desktop will
> make me run screaming from Ubuntu.  I'd rather know now what's in store
> in the future if I stay with Ubuntu.
>

The future of Ubuntu desktop is planned to be Unity 3D and Unity 2D -
or "Unity" :D

GNOME 3 and also GNOME Shell is shipped in the repository for 11.10
onwards. If you would prefer to use GNOME Shell on top of GNOME 3 in
Ubuntu then 11.10 is a good choice. GNOME Shell is not the _default_
but it is _available_.

Plans are subject to change of course, but that's the current plan as
I understand it.

Cheers,
Al.