But NIH clearly dictates that reinventing the wheel and duplicate effort is preferable to using dirty dirty plasma.

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"You are looking at a picture (within a picture) both showing my crude 10 minute implementation of Ubuntu's Unity layout by customizing plasma. There was 0 code involved here on my part. It get's basically similar functionality to unity (not everything obviously) and it has both a composited mode and a non-composited mode that you can switch seamlessly between as an added advantage. I think the Ubuntu team should have started with kde technology I feel it would have made their lives much easier and this is a platform that is powerful and would have saved a lot of effort."