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by entropy_ 5068 days ago
No, it is not.
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progrock 5068 days ago
If Unity is described as a Shell for the GNOME desktop environment. Then that sounds about right to me.

Perhaps better questions to ask would be what is Gnome 3? What is Gnome Shell? And what is Gnome? Sorry but it's a bit difficult to comment on Gnome when it's not entirely clear as to what it is.

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keithpeter 5068 days ago
I think Unity depends on a fair amount of gnome 3 libraries, at least in 12.04
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ralfn 5067 days ago
Yes and no. They ship with a lot of gnome3 apps, but none of the unity code uses any gnome 3 libs. They do use compiz though, and have compiz use the gconf settings.

The thing is, they could switch to a qt based desktop, without touching any unity code.

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padraigm 5068 days ago
This is false. Unity is an alternative to Gnome-shell; it uses (sometimes patched versions of) the same underlying Gnome 3 libraries.
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sciurus 5067 days ago
Or it's true. GNOME doesn't present itself as a set of libraries, it presents itself as a desktop shell and set of applications.

http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/

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