[03:31] <lotuspsychje> good morning
[13:00] <Walex> Unity was not too bad, but just unnecessary. Just a blatant attempt to develop some Canonical owned GUI IP.
[13:07] <JanC> Unity & Gnome Shell started around the same time, and Unity was usable when Gnome Shell was still vaporware
[13:08] <JanC> assuming we mean Compiz-based Unity
[14:26] <pragmaticenigma> pretty much, The gnome team was just too slow at getting its next gen desktop environment published and Canonical wanted something that was touch screen friendly. Tablets were all the rage back then too, and everyone was trying to get their stuff ported to be touch friendly.
[14:28] <ogra_> another problem was that upstream GNOME really disagreed about some technical design decisions and things simply did not get merged (the notification system comes to mind but there was a lot more back in the days)
[14:31] <pragmaticenigma> It's also Gnome... they're known for being headstrong on their design choices
[14:31] <pragmaticenigma> creates a lot of debate in their world