On May 10, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Jarod Wilson wrote:
Another pro to consider: menus aren't duplicated needlessly
across multiple instances of the same program.
Visual duplication or resource duplication?
Visual duplication, which is also a resource duplication (where
said
On May 11, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
Meh. Top of the screen isn't all that inconvenient to me. Its always
in the exact same place, so finding it with a simple muscle memory
trained flick of the mouse/touchpad/whatever is rather quick.
This, in spades. Consistency is a hallmark
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:01:01PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On May 10, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
But the whole point of menus are to provide a documentation crutch for
infrequent operations or infrequent users. For the latter case, if you
make the menus less convenient to use,
On May 10, 2011, at 1:45 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
...
I've also never liked the Mac-style menus on the top of the screen
rather than in the window title bar. It strikes me as a UI decision that
doesn't scale well. It was fine when the Mac meant the beige toaster
with its 9 display, but when
On 05/10/2011 11:17 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
Another pro to consider: menus aren't duplicated needlessly
across multiple instances of the same program. Part of this has
to do with how processes are launch in, say, gnome, vs. in Mac
OS X. Two gnome terminal windows == two different applications,
Jarod Wilson wrote:
Another pro to consider: menus aren't duplicated needlessly
across multiple instances of the same program.
Visual duplication or resource duplication?
Part of this has to do with how processes are launch... Two gnome
terminal windows == two different applications, each
A Linux Journal (free) article on Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-1104-unity-released-mixed-reactions
It quotes mixed reviews of Unity from around the net, such as:
Rob Williams said, Unity impressed me a lot more than I expected it to.
After some use
On 5/9/2011 9:36 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Unity has approximately the same UI as GNOME 3, so I'm not sure why they
diverged from that project. The comments on the above article say
they'll be using GNOME 3 in 11.10.
I think I could live with the side-bar dock. Most of us use wide screen
Mark? Dúlcey wrote:
One thing I've always found annoying about Gnome 2 is that you can't
effectively move the taskbar to the side of the screen as you can in
Windows -- yes you can put it there but it misbehaves in various
annoying ways.
Try replacing the stock window list applet with a
