Re: "Gubuntu" - Long term perspective for Ubuntu with Gnome?

[Evandro Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:33:38AM -0400, Mark Curtis wrote:
>> Considering Unity IS GNOME, that name would just cause confusion.
>> If such a thing were done I would think it should be called Shubuntu (for the shell).
>> I don't know why it would need a major respin once Ubuntu goes to GNOME 3 for its next version, anyway.  There's no Epubuntu for replacing Firefox with GNOME's Epiphany.
>
> This is not correct.
>
> Unity is not GNOME. It uses various GNOME components, but it is not
> GNOME. Unity is a different desktop environment just like e.g. XFCE.
>

I wouldn't put Unity and XFCE on the same level. Unity itself is just
a compiz plugin, while XFCE has its own window manager, file manager,
configuration applets and so on. Granted, Ubuntu also patches their
own notification system to several components of the distribution, but
that's something they've been doing for a while.

Ideally, for Ubuntu 11.10 you'll be able to simply install the
gnome-shell and mutter packages and then select a "GNOME Shell"
session from GDM. Of course, it will never be a "pure" GNOME
distribution just like Ubuntu never was: the original release already
changed the default behavior for Nautilus and applied a not so good
looking theme and background, for instance.

Cheers,
Evandro