On Sat 24 Sep 2011 11:15:43 PM IST, JD Horelick wrote: > On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: >>> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in >>> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? >> >> What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or having >> *tried* to use it). >> >> Once you have, you will see why no one is enthusiastic enough to write >> an ebuild and support it in gentoo (or an overlay). >> >> I'm just glad that Ubuntu still ships with vanilla Gnome (or "Ubuntu >> Classic") by default -- I maintain a few Ubuntu systems for members of >> my family. >> >> >> J >> >>
It's stunning to know that something that's shipped by default with Ubuntu sucks so much? Canonical surely must have gone haywire. > > > > Just my opinion here, but i've used both Unity and gnome-shell and a > *MUCH* prefer Unity (IMO, I could live with Unity if GNOME2 ever went > away, i know i couldn't live with gnome-shell). It seems to have a > more well thought-out interface, it's getting massive improvements and > it's really sane and non-obtrusive (compared to gnome-shell, I still > prefer a "traditional desktop experience"). > I don't like gnome-shell either, tried it on Fedora Live. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
