Having common UI for small touchscreen v/s big widescreen monitors can never
satisfy both extremes. Clearly for people like me some of the new UI changes
make it a lot worse:
1) Activities: Earlier betas had nice Activities pane with 12 applications,
places/devices and recent items nicely available with "find" box right at the
mouse tip as soon as you went to Activities. Now to copy Ubuntu Unity, we have
left edge bar with only applications and worst "Search" in right hand corner
was a bad change.
2) Windows control: Now we have quite old-style, ugly-looking close control
only. People have different favorites windows control buttons and their
position. Mac-folks may like them onleft, windows-folks may want them on right.
Some may be happy with only close control, some may want
minimize/maximize/restore +/- shade, snap-to-left/right, if it can be easily
added. So giving users choice of how many and which controls one wants,
depending on how big screen and therefore window's title-bar is, would have
been great.
3) Scrollbars: Someone had written about that. Again for big screens, it's size
is almost a non-issue; but for small screens and particularly touchscreens,
allowing easy adjustment of width or even eliminating them totally will help.
- VJ
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