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Just to clarify, what the Mint developers are forking is actually just the Gnome Shell, not the entire GNOME 3 platform. In this regard it's no different than Ubuntu's Unity.

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Unity is a bit more than just a different shell. They have all kinds of things because of the menubar, libappindicator, etc.

"In this regard it's no different than Ubuntu's Unity."

Unity isn't a fork of Gnome Shell. Unity-3D is a Compiz plugin and Unity-2D is written in Qt.

I meant that Ubuntu is still built on top of GNOME 3, using a different graphical shell called Unity, much as Mint will also be built on top of GNOME 3 using Cinnamon as the graphical shell. I wasn't implying that Unity was a fork of Gnome Shell.

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