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Using Unity, a Primer

Unity is a fresh take on the GUI. It has been created with the assistance of user interface professionals and graphic designers and aims toward elegance, beauty, and efficiency while providing obvious ways to perform tasks. This section gives a tour of the basic features and use and then moves in to more specific details that are likely to thrill power users.

Mark Shuttleworth on Unity

“Our goal with Unity is unprecedented ease of use, visual style, and performance on the Linux desktop.”

From a blog post on August 16, 2011; www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/717