There is an effort underway to make US usable with alternate desktops. I use Cinnamon and am working on that part of the project, hoping to ultimately create a metapackage that would allow Cinnamon to be installed into an existing US install by any user. Similar efforts for KDE, GNOME, Unity, and other DE's are envisioned.
This has nothing to do with changing the default DE as far as I have ever heard. Rather, Ubuntu and indeed Linux users in general have developed a lot of different preferences in DS's since the GNOME 3 situation began the fragmentation. Developers of US went with XFCE, which is light and did not follow the trend towards the "smartphone/tablet" UI that GNOME, Ubuntu/Unity and now Windows 8 have followed. Other distros had the exact same problem. Mint stayed with GNOME 2 for one cycle, then their team wrote "Mint Gnome Shell Extensions" or MGSE to revert the US changes. Another person wrote the "frippery" extensions to do the same. Mint found their extensions to be hell to maintain due to constant changes in GNOME, and the Frippery extensions always lag behind GNOME releases foe that reason. Therefore, the Mint team forked all of GNOME 3 except for libgjs and Clutter to create Cinnamon, which is used like GNOME2 but has GNOME 3 under the hood. Some users, myself included, like Cinnamon a lot. I switched to it as soon as I saw it. In my case, that was because extensions to keep the system tray on top in GNOME were becoming impossible to keep working-and I needed the volume control applet (volti) available with pulseaudio removed while using a compositing desktop. On 06/10/2013 at 9:04 PM, "C. F. Howlett" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I'm confused. Why are the developers installing US with >cinnamon? Is >> this to be an official option to future US? Did I miss >something? Thanks >> in advance for clarification. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
