Unity is one shell of Ubuntu for netbooks, but has been improved by usability experts in order to also be included in the normal desktop version, so the Gnome Classic 2 is only as a safeguard in case your PC that can not support the composition or simply do not like Unity.
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Personally I can not give my opinion because when I tried it was a little green and there were no such things as lenses or auto-hide the sidebar, was also slow and not even work properly the start menu. But if that attracts me much more than GNOME SHELL, which if you've tried and it seems a step backwards in usability, the need for more clicks for the same, there is very little customization of time and knowing I do not think much improvement thing.
To begin we must say that there are two versions of Unity , one is in development and is based on Qt4 libraries, so you do not need to be activated the membership, called Unity 2D and is expected in the future replace the current version that is included, which is called Unity 3D, and if you need a video card capable of 3D accelerating smoothly, it is almost anyone who is not older than 6 years, since mine has more or less the time and work, a fair bit but it works. Here you can already see some of the differences with the Gnome shell 3, and is that in this or use the composition or annoy you.
Unity is characterized by:
- Upper panel, in your system tray, start button and indicators, as has always been on Ubuntu, but not exactly the same as we can not add what we want, but this is justified in seeing the rest of the desktop, as this panel needs the space for the menus of each application, shown here, as we see in OSX, saving space the screen. Sidebar
- with pitchers and applications open. Similar to the bar of Windows 7 but with much more potential. In addition to the lens, now the comment. The
- desktop notifications have been seeing in Ubuntu for some time, which can not click.
- The start menu is not like before, now when you click on that button with the logo of Ubuntu, the Dash will appear (do not know how to translate correctly), it is a picture that fills the entire or most of the screen that displays icons for the categories of applications, or seeking to do, etc.. So we have to change the chip when opening applications. That you use or have tested GNOME-DO, Kupfer or any other program like that, you will see that what we want to achieve is something, but is still very green compared to these, or so it seemed in the beta, and seems to have changed too. Also seems like a good idea.
also noticed that now the center Ubuntu software includes ratings, reviews , recommendations and have included some games commercial as World Of Goo , among many others.
also One Ubuntu now supports streaming music, social networks are even better integrated with the I Menu is included LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice, Firefox 4 , new versions of pitivi and Shotwell, etc.
From the Ubuntu site have in detail which is what you can find in this new version, that if, in English , it seems that they will not ever translate to another languages. And strongly recommend that you go through the extensive, comprehensive and useful post gaBeBlog where we can see how to make a clean installation to the post-configuration.
