Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop has caused nothing but anger for me. Unity is unusable, gnome-shell is ok, but to much like unity and a little under developed, and gnome-panel (Gnome Classic) requires a lot of configurations. Such a "canonical" fail.
Chris... On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:38 PM, David Kaiser <dkai...@cdk.com> wrote: > Yes, I think they intend to use "Unity" as the one interface across Ubuntu > TV, Ubuntu Phone, Ubuntu Tablet Edition, and of course the almighty > desktop. That's been my impression of it at least. > > > On 5/17/12 7:37 AM, Jeff wrote: > > On Thursday, May 17, 2012 01:04:41 AM Steve Vasta wrote: > > >> It seems to me that we're letting the "open-source" developers of > >> Ubuntu lord Unity over our heads as the next "great" desktop that > >> everybody has to migrate to instead of using and promoting what > >> actually works well. Why the developers of the Ubuntu desktop throw > >> away a mature desktop like gnome 3 and adopt this hack called > >> "Unity" (desktop peoples of the world, unite) is beyond me. > > > I don't know if you're being rhetorical or not; there are discussions of > what they did and how they did it, published on the 'net. I found them hard > to follow when I first read them so I won't look for them now, but they did > have reasons, no matter how we 'unwashed masses' see it. > > >> This > >> "piece of trash" should have never been promoted as the prime desktop > >> into Ubuntu, > > > My recollection is that having the same look and feel across all platforms > was important to them; one look on phones, tablets, laptops, desktops. > > > Like Microsoft is doing with W8 (yes 'W8', as in 'I gave up on Microsoft; > that's a big W8 off my shoulders'). > > > Jeff > > -- > > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
