On 2013-01-23 3:50 PM, "Bruce Kilpatrick" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >If you would prefer, Ctl-Alt-t is the keyboard shortcut for the Terminal >app. I think it still works in Unity. > >Bruce >_______________________________________________ This thread is timely for me, as i finally got around to performing a mind-wipe/clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 last weekend. i'd been using 10.10 since it first released (and many releases prior to 10), and a lot of the 3rd-party repos had stopped updates for it (got stuck on older Firefox & Thunderbird). i figured i'd give Unity a try, even though i'm a bit of a luddite and had grown really comfy in my highly customized Gnome2 environment(s) over the last seven or eight years. i went into the effort well aware of the many complaints, and annoyed by the new wave of Ubuntu fanboy-ism that rivals passionate Mac-o-philes and seems to have sprung up in recent times (get offa my lawn!). A few days in, and i'm surprised at how much i like it. Yes, i have to hunt down and install some new "tweak" tools to customize the environment in ways that Gnome2 supported out of the box, and i'm wary of just loading my old Compiz settings, and the color scheme is gawd-awful, but it suits my working style pretty well. i've always relied on the keyboard more than the mouse, which usually just slows me down. Gnome's keyboard access to the gui is great (and it's that aspect of MS Windows that i prefer to the slavish mouse-dependency of Mac OS X). i've grown quite dependent on Gnome-Do (a clone of the QuickSilver utility for OSX) for learning my usage habits. So, im already fairly quick at finding what i need in Unity by just typing away. i don't like the "universal menu bar" glued to the top of the primary display (similar to OS X), as it makes mousing the menus a longer trip than when the menu bar is in the app window. Also, it seems like setting the window-focus behavior to follow the mouse position rather than clicking-to-focus causes problems with the proper menu appearing. And i haven't tried it with multiple displays. i still have plenty of tweaking to do and tools to reinstall (not looking forward to reinstalling the JVMs i need for development & testing), but i'm liking it a lot more than i thought i would. Once i get it tuned i plan to add Gnome Shell and give that a try as well. ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
