Hi,
2. Top-left controls.
>
> Having tested Unity some more, I can see why the top-left window control
> buttons have become essential (disappearing the task and title bars,
> while avoiding the top-right system controls already in place) so that
> the _user_ must change. Hence acceptance of Volker's point - he still
> has choice on other distros - and some digression into philosophy..
>
> As a new user finding my gnu/linux feet, my primary choices for ease of
> use became gnome + debian packaging (tried Suse& Redhat but found them
> more.. difficult/problematic). Ubuntu then filled my basic user needs,
> by efficiently fulfilling my choice. But now it does not, and
> determinedly so. Quite a paradigm leap, that I will probably adjust to.
> But should I? ...
>
What ever happened to the myth of adaptibility I always had about linux
users - able to try
new things, learn from others, and move on?
Controls at the top left have advantages..
When the window is made larger than the screen, (or when some
configuration issue shrinks the screen),
the controls are more likely to be available to the user - if they are
at the top left.
I find the launcher works nicely - suppose you have five open terminals,
on different virtual desktops. click
on the terminal icon in the launcher, and the display shows all the
terminals (only smaller) on the screen. click
on the relevant terminal, and you go to that workspace.
The collapsing of the menu for the application into the panel at the top
is good - it saves on screen space.
Further, when the application is narrow, and programmer elects to have
many columns of options, it all
fits nicely on the panel.
The current unity is new software - so it will have some quirky behaviour.
Perhaps this "Unity" transition provides the perfect metaphor for linux:
a minority of 'lefties' forcing the majority to do what is 'right' for
them technically. But that's really just impression, because the
opposite actually applies, perhaps :-)
A view that does not explain why unity is (almost) a copy of the mac
approach.
Are you saying that mac is controlled by some lefties ?
Back to work now.
Me too - I have done enough stirring.
Derek.
--
Derek J Smithies Ph.D.
Christchurch,
New Zealand
-- "How did you make it work??" "the usual, got everything right"
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