On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 10:37 -0400, Mark Curtis wrote: > I'm not trying to make things up, I was just asking for clarification. > I thought GNOME was more than just the shell, as in GTK+ for one
:) I didn't say it was "just the shell"; I said it was a Desktop Environment. It encompasses standards for presentation, mechanisms for applications to use services like notification, methods for applications to provide integration. > > Subject: RE: "Gubuntu" - Long term perspective for Ubuntu with > Gnome? > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:33:07 -0400 > > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 10:18 -0400, Mark Curtis wrote: > > > How is any distro using Unity instead of GNOME Shell any different > > > than one using Pidgin instead of Empathy, or Firefox instead of > > > Epiphany? > > You don't get to make-up what terms / words mean. > > GNOME and Unity are Desktop Environments. > > Empathy and Pidgin are Applications. > > That is the difference. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
