Re: [orca-list] Unity 2D or unity 3D for Orca

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Dave.

As concerning the similarities between Unity and GNOME Shell...If I 
remember correctly, Unity is just a different shell which runs on GNOME 
3's technology. The same can be said for Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop; 
ti is simply another shell interface which has GNOME 3 technology under 
the hood.

One of the reasons Unity came into existence, as I remember reading some 
time ago, is because Mark Shuttleworth and others did not feel that 
GNOME Shell was the direction in which they wanted to go as concerning a 
GUI interface. I love Unity and GNOME Shell; as a matter of fact, I am 
grateful for all of the free desktop environments out there, especially 
those which show some concern for accessibility. I have also worked with 
Cinnamon a bit, and it seems like it would help prior Windows users to 
feel more at home in Linux, but the last I tried it it was not quite 
usable with Orca. I'll have to try it out again sometime soon.

At least we in the Linux world can say we have options. If we don't like 
or prefer one desktop environment, there are plenty more out there.

Kind regards, and I apologize for not having anything helpful to add.

On 04/11/2012 01:44 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When you have your session set to gnome-shell, does it not come up 
> accessible?  It did in Ubuntu 11.10, last time I tried.  I noticed 
> that orca had a hard time staying focused and switching among running 
> apps, but, yah, got the sense that Unity and gnome-shell are very 
> similar.  I can't say who copied whom;  lol.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> On 04/11/2012 03:46 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> > I used gnome-shell last night for a bit of work I had to do while on
> > my 12.04 installation and found it quite nice.  It doesn't work out of
> > the box for you though even when your session is set to gnome-shell.
> > Unity 2d still comes up.  You have to install Mutter and then you do a
> > gnome-shell --replace from the alt f2 dialog from within a
> > gnome-fallback session.  I actually really liked it.  Typing alt f1,
> > hitting spacebar and then typing what I wanted to run in the search
> > field was kind of neat and ctrl alt tabbing around to the different
> > pannels was cool too.  I liked gnome3's dash more than Unity's.  I
> > finally saw what was meant by Unity trying to copy Gnome shell.
> >
> > Alex M
> >
> >
> > On 4/11/12, Dave Hunt<ka1cey gmail com>  wrote:
> > > If you must run Unity, use 2-d; I suggest gnome-fallback for the best
> > > experience.
> > >
> > > -Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 04/11/2012 02:49 AM, Petra Ritter wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am runing Ubuntu 11.10 on my System.
> > > >
> > > > Sometime the System frize, so that I have to reboot it.
> > > > In order to track the problem down I would like to know what is better
> > > > to run Unity 2d or unity 3D on a machine with orca on it.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards
> > > > Petra Ritter
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> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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