On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 21:24 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote: > > Yeah, but the good 2D experience is really just a fall back to Gnome 2.X > > panel, and the current Ubuntu desktop. It will be good to have this fall > > back well tested, but that doesn't help us test Unity. > > Sorry for the tangent but I could not find more information about this > online: is the Unity UI fundamentally tied to 3D acceleration support > and compositing? IMHO if it was technically possible it would be more > uniform to have the 2D experience built on the same new UI/UX concepts > just a bit less visually intense, much like the 'desktop effects' > setting used to provide more or less the same UI with various degrees of > glitz.
Today Unity currently relies on 3D acceleration support AFAIK. As for a 2D equivalent that uses the same UI components, I think this is a better question for the Ayatana list - https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Jono -- Jono Bacon Ubuntu Community Manager jono(at)ubuntu(dot)com www.ubuntu.com : www.jonobacon.org www.twitter.com/jonobacon : www.identi.ca/jonobacon -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
