On 23 October 2011 16:44, Mike Biancaniello <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed a transition lately to optimisations for smaller screens and > making more out of limited real estate and for tablets and phone and such, > it's wonderful and quite innovative. However, for those of us who still use > an actual monitor, it's annoying at best. From not being able to scroll my > firefox by clicking the bottom of the scrollbar to the entire unity > interface, it is not optimised in the least for anyone with a screen larger > than 10".
The scrollbars will be improved in Ubuntu 12.04. For a preview, see http://vimeo.com/30096481 Technically, Firefox doesn't use the new overlay scrollbars. The scrollbars did improve in 11.10 and they are pretty easy to remove (just uninstall liboverlay-scrollbar* ). Multi-monitor support should be getting some work in 12.04 which is obviously not a tablet optimization. Unity and GNOME Shell definitely work on average screens, not just small ones (I don't have a large screen nor a Ubuntu-capable touchscreen at home). And there's definitely value in having the same UI for tablet users and desktop users. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell fully support a touch interface yet but GNOME Shell is closer. On 23 October 2011 18:15, David Groos <[email protected]> wrote: > XFCE has the advantage of being really light weight, Right? That is a great > advantage. What would be lost by moving away from GNOME? Wouldn't we loose > the use of some current Edubuntu software? In other words, what's the full > range of pros/cons? Shipping xubuntu-desktop by default in no way impacts whether you can use GNOME or KDE educational apps. I've not used XFCE recently but it's not as full featured as a GNOME Fallback desktop (which will be even more usable next release when indicators are ported to it). Jeremy Bicha -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
