Hi, I find current approach clumsy because it makes at least two desirable features hard to implement.
1. Changing desktop shell without changing applications. Changing DE is actually painful, as one have to familiar herself with a set of new applications. Running multiple DE in parallel actually result in many applications with duplicate functionality; the most annoying case would be running MATE and GNOME at the same time. You may check the following page for inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows 2. Running Unity without effects. Currently there is no sane way to disable effects, even though it is not impossible. After all, one binary being a plugin of another binary means that they are same process and crash together ... BTW, I'd like to ask, when Compiz crash, is there a fast way to restart it without restarting LightDM? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
