On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Adrian Mageanu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 13:07 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: >> On 07/06/12 17:54, Adrian Mageanu wrote: >> > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 17:55 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote: >> > [...] >> >> Summary: >> >> a fresh install of 12.04 was worth the hassle. I like it. >> > How is Compiz fairing on 12.04? >> > >> > Sadly on Fedora17 - what I'm using now - it has been orphaned. >> > >> > But I see it included in precise:universe:updates >> > >> > http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/precise/universe/updates/compiz >> > >> > and there is some activity on launchpad.net >> > >> > https://launchpad.net/compiz >> > >> > Did you try it? How buggy is it? >> > >> > Adrian >> After the upgrade to 11.10 (from 11.04 to 11.10) the skype icon in the >> top panel was near useless. It did not display a >> red circle to indicate I had missed an incoming call. which meant I had >> to periodically check the skype window for activity. >> The box was then upgraded to 12.04 - and I was hoping that skype would >> "come right". It didn't. After the fresh install of >> 12.04, the skype status icon in the top bar behaves correctly. >> >> After the upgrade to 12.04, where the box went from 11.10 to 12.04, the >> window experience was horrible. The vertical >> bar on the left did not display correctly - it would sometimes "hide >> itself", but leave a solid thick white bar behind. The >> white bar was the same width as before the hide event. The area where >> the bar on the left was - could not be used. >> This pushed me over the edge, and I did the fresh install. Post fresh >> install, I have seen nothing untoward. All window >> behaviour appears normal... >> >> I note from wikipedia that compiz fusion is the default in Ubuntu, and >> I did stick with the default - much easier that >> way - so yes - I am using compiz. >> >> I hope this answers your question.. >> >> Cheers, >> Derek. >> > Thank you Derek, you not only answered my question, but you made several > good selling points for Ubuntu 12.04, I think I'm going to make the > switch to it next weekend. > > My desktop experience with Fedora so far is approaching satisfactory > only, with Gtk themes not working properly in Gnome, Cinnamon still > having bugs I see on their website as being fixed, and the rest of Gnome > themes that are still working designed by some aesthetically challenged > artists with little sense of colour and contrast. And did I mention no > Compiz?... > > Cheers, > Adrian > >
Has anyone tried Mate? http://mate-desktop.org/ What is MATE? MATE is a fork of Gnome 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
