On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > fwiw, Unity is pretty good now... after the first year of pain, it has > cleaned up nicely. lots of key bindings, and a few strategic gnome setting > (focus follows mouse, disable autoraise) and it mostly gets out of the way. > It still wants to maximize windows a bit too often for my taste... but I > don't get the complaints about it being not suitable for use by old Unix > hands. I'm one of those grey beards now (OK, beard is virtual), and it seems > fine using vi and make ;-)
I work on Unity every day. Partly because I have to ;) But I agree -- for development, with the Launcher set to auto-hide and using small icons, with a maximized terminal on each monitor, it very much stays out of the way. All I see then is my vi session, a tiny orange scrollbar, and a top line with the title, time and indicators. I see it a lot like working in a VT with screen or tmux and a status line -- you not only get to work with a few distractions as possible, but you also don't have to interrupt your workflow to know what time it is, or to know that you've received mail -- or that you've been working on battery in a coffee shop for the past four hours and your battery is about to die. Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
