Alternatives to Unity

[Tom H]

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to see mergers between some of these projects. My dream
> scenario might be:
>
> * Unity abandons Compiz, moves to Mutter and integrates into GNOME 3
> using the same window manager - GNOME's favourites bar replaced by the
> Unity Launcher, Unity's virtual desktops replaced by GNOME 3's better
> version.
>
> * Meantime, Ubuntu work with Mint and use Mint's forked file manager
> Nemo in Unity. (Explanation: the GNOME project has trimmed so many
> features from Nautilus in GNOME 3.4 that both Ubuntu and Mint have
> cried "too much". Ubuntu is retaining an older version for now; Mint
> has forked Nautilus to create Nemo.

+1 to the two points above...

> * Maté and Xfce port their desktops to Gtk3, meaning less ongoing work
> and maintenance and better cross-compatibility with Unity and GNOME 3.