How to Make GNOME Shell Look Like Unity?
Want to make GNOME Shell look like the Unity desktop? If you do, then this guide is for you.- Community submission by Editor (9to6linux) on
Want to make GNOME Shell look like the Unity desktop? If you do, then this guide is for you.
Ubuntu’s Unity desktop was divisive from the off. It got a severely negative reception for its first couple of releases. Aside from missing features, part of disapproval was down to the fact that people were happy with the traditional GNOME 2-based desktop Ubuntu was using (this was pre-GNOME Shell, remember).
It “just worked”. Being shunted to use something so alien by comparison — a left-hand launcher?! a dash?! window buttons in the top bar?! — was something of a culture shock.
The folks at Ubports continue to work at making Unity 8 a reality; there is effort to preserve the Unity 7 experience; and a community team hope to build a next generation Unity desktop. Also, you can install Unity 7 on a modern Ubuntu release but it’s not quite the 1:1 experience it once was.