On 6 May 2011 09:42, Tony Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm wondering why Ubuntu decided to side-line Gnome 3 in favour of > Unity? And does this mean Ubuntu may never support Gnome 3? > > How are such decisions made and is it documented anywhere? > > Personally I'd like to make my own choice about the user interface I use. > > Regards, > Tony. > Hello Tony, The reasons for not including Gnome 3 libraries and therefore not yet supporting Gnome Shell (which requires Gnome 3) has been well discussed online and I believe the decision was well documented at the last UDS meeting. The essential point as I understand was that Gnome 3 seemed unlikely to be ready when the planning for Ubuntu 10.04, so it was planned to stick with Gnome 2 for this release. Thanks -- John Stevenson <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/johnstevenson247> | @JR0cket<http://http//twitter.com/#%21/JR0cket> | JR0cket.co.uk <http://jr0cket.co.uk/> | JR0cket.com <http://jr0cket.com/> | LeanAgileMachine.com <http://leanagilemachine.com/>
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