I don't think that Ubuntu is to be held accountable for making the desktop "unusable" as it stands (I personally do not even share that belief) - if anything, they have indeed added another "option", as houstonbofh asks... the default being gnome-shell, nowhere close to the classic desktop paradigm. It is the gnome devs who decided gnome2 was done for, so what are Ubuntu to do? - they can accept the decision and make gnome-shell the default, or offer an alternative they believe they would like gnome3 to provide. Indeed, I think Unity is closer to gnome2 than is gnome-shell, even though I like and enjoy them both - in Unity, you have the old workspaces, the old classic menus in the form of lenses, the old way to change the wallpaper, the good old Compiz, etc etc etc. Gnome-shell is almost an alien phenomenon, though I like what I saw, and I stuck with it on my Arch and Debian Sid installs... As for gnome2, it simply does not exist anymore, at least actively, and the only possible path is to move on - more and more apps will start with gnome3 libraries, and eventually everyone shall be forced to move elsewhere away from gnome2.
I think if you handed the Unity desktop to the average grandma, I think they will have a much easier time than with the old one - pressing the 'Sup' key and just typing in what you want - now that's simplicity! I would humbly like to suggest a change of perspectives to appreciate the positives, as opposed to holding on to ghosts of the past. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GenOS: In Progress Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in NULL Project: Invalid Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: New Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: New Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
