Ubuntu going astray Getting rid of Gnome's custom login screen and sound customizing apps? Why? They seem like basic features of an OS trying to attract desktop users from the Windows world. Why get rid of them?
Or change the min/min/close/max button style to that new wacky model? Yes, with a little Linux knowledge the user can change back to the old button style and customize their own sound theme but it sure won't attract any new users from the Windows world who are Linux neophytes. And wassup with Grub2 replacing the old Grub? Who but some dedicated Linux geek programmer would see any use for Grub2's features? Or plymouth? Wouldn't the Ubuntu team have been smarter to employ a grub w/gfxboot like Mepis? Maybe Shuttleworth and his programmers are more interested in showing what they can do than showing they care about what real-world desktop users are looking for. Kudos to Shuttleworth for providing a user friendly Linux desktop for the masses, Hardy and Jaunty. Too bad he's losing sight of that worthy goal in pursuit of God knows what. On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 08:51 -0700, Michael wrote: > > I must be channeling for JJJ or something. > When re-installing > Kubuntu on a laptop after its hard drive failed I saw the uBlog note asking > for Lucid testers. "What the heck", I thought, "it's a > fresh system. I have nothing to lose." > > The so far so > good bits. > > Power management works without my > intervention. Though I really want to turn it off as my system as > issues with coming back from deep sleep. > > The touchpad (with only > two buttons to click) by default treats a tap in the upper right corner as a > middle button click. > > Lucid is a LTS version. > > The > not so good bit: > > the HAL daemon has segfaulted. Triggering a > request to report the bug. As have a couple of other bits of system > plumbing. The good side to this is the failed daemon restarts itself and > there is only a short pause in going forward. > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
