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Desktop environment or interface?
There seems to be some real debate about whether Unity should be considered a shell for Gnome, an interface or a new desktop environment that uses Gnome applications. The article has had several edits now to change this back and forth, but we need some reliable refs to come up with an answer. The official Unity website doesn't answer the question. The cited refs, like Proffitt, Noyes and Jackson all call it an "interface". Even Mark Shuttle worth calls in "an interface", as does OMG Ubuntu and even the official Ubuntu Unity package management page on Launchpad. Less reliable WP:SPS refs call it a desktop environment, like Tombuntu. Unless anyone can come up with some better refs I am thinking the article really needs to be moved to Unity interface and the text amended to reflect this. - Ahunt (talk) 14:41, 3 November 2010 (UTC)