On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:53:45 +0100
Leszek Kobiernicki 1 l.kobierni...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 30/06/12 12:29, john lewis wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:37:06 +0100
Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
On 30/06/12 11:09, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
On 10.04.x, you can access every
On 30/06/12 18:10, hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Saturday 30 June 2012 11:37:06 Alan Pope wrote:
I hear Debian is quite nice :)
I never expected to hear you say that! ;-)
I ran Red Hat on my systems for a while up until ~7.3. It was Hugo who
suggested I try Debian when I got sick of
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:53:45 +0100
Leszek Kobiernicki 1 l.kobierni...@ntlworld.com wrote:
If I can't warm to Unity, I might well hafta go Debian
if you do decide to install Debian this will be relevant;
General questions
Q. How do I install unstable (sid) ?
See also
On 01/07/12 02:22, Full Circle Podcast wrote:
Oops, almost forgot, Popey:
You could try other derivatives like Linux Mint with Cinnamon or Mate, but
I would question the sustainability of those desktops.
Nice plug of the corporate line,
It's not the corporate line, it's my personal
I very much feel there is a trend in interface design to favour the
new/occasional user, even when it will inconvenience the experienced
power user.
I think exactly the opposite, TBH.
All this searching for the application presupposes that the user knows
what the app is called. It doesn't
On 01/07/12 02:48, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
I understand Canonical's committed to Unity, but I still don't hafta
like its seizure of control over the old menu-driven experience
Sure, there's bits of Unity that I don't like either :)
What's worth noting is that it's not finished. We have a
On 01/07/12 03:11, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
Some private jokery-pokery here
No idea, I think Robin had been on the sherry. :)
But, more pragmatically, how to get Gnome fall-back session ?
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
Logout, log back in again but choose the fallback
On 01/07/12 10:07, Vic wrote:
I very much feel there is a trend in interface design to favour the
new/occasional user, even when it will inconvenience the experienced
power user.
I think exactly the opposite, TBH.
SNIP
Yeh, I see what you mean...
Perhaps I should have said: I very much
On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
This is Unix, for heaven's sake, how can a terminal window *not* be
available right there, front and centre?
https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+unity+terminal
Basically ctrl+alt+T (same as it has been on Ubuntu for some while).
Or press the Ubuntu
My main point, though, was about have ways of working imposed on me,
rather than me having control over them.
And I am right with you on that.
Luckily for me, the code I use is FOSS, so I do have the right to port the
old Gnome2 desktop to my current OS. But I am very much in the
On 01/07/12 10:18, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
This is Unix, for heaven's sake, how can a terminal window *not* be
available right there, front and centre?
https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+unity+terminal
Basically ctrl+alt+T (same as it has been on
On 01/07/12 10:26, Chris Liddell wrote:
So, clearly I'm wrong. I've always wanted to work the way Unity works, I
just didn't realise it..
I fail to see how being different is 'getting in the way'. There's a
learning curve with many things, but people seem to have a very low
tolerance
Just because GNOME 2 did it one way for years, doesn't make it the right
way.
Just because Gnome3 and Unity do it a different way, doesn't make it the
right way.
It would be really nice to have this discussion occasionally without being
told we're just wrong for wanting the old metaphor
On 01/07/12 10:33, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/07/12 10:26, Chris Liddell wrote:
Are you channelling the ghost of Steve Jobs? There's our way, and
there's the wrong way is not an attitude I ever expected to find so
openly espoused in the Unix world, and especially not in the Linux world.
Just
On 1 July 2012 09:56, Chris Liddell c...@spamcop.net wrote:
A bit late to this discussion, but never mind.
I gave up on Unity *very* quickly. it took me a good (bad!) fifteen
minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I concluded it was
not for me, at all - I switched to
On 01/07/12 10:38, Vic wrote:
Just because Gnome3 and Unity do it a different way, doesn't make it the
right way.
A convincing argument for GNOME 2 you have there.
It would be really nice to have this discussion occasionally without being
told we're just wrong for wanting the old metaphor
On 01/07/12 10:48, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 1 July 2012 09:56, Chris Liddell c...@spamcop.net wrote:
A bit late to this discussion, but never mind.
I gave up on Unity *very* quickly. it took me a good (bad!) fifteen
minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I
Andy,
Alan and I take the mick out of each other all the time (often on podcasts
and in IRC), and we've had this very conversation a couple of times. We
have very thick skins.
Merely pointing out a couple of pertinant facts.
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On 1 July 2012 02:30,
...and I haven't touched the sherry since 27 July 2000.
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I've told you once...
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A convincing argument for GNOME 2 you have there.
It was your argument in support of Unity. I was trying to point out how
fatuous it is.
Reducing it down to 'them and us' doesn't help
Of course it doesn't. It does, however, reflect the approach many of us
experience when we say that Unity
On 01/07/12 11:50, Vic wrote:
A convincing argument for GNOME 2 you have there.
It was your argument in support of Unity. I was trying to point out how
fatuous it is.
It wasn't meant in support of Unity, just that the fact that something
is de-facto standard doesn't make it right. That
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:50:50 +0100 (BST)
Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote:
Here's my suggestion: reinstate the Gnome2-like desktop. Do you
honestly think that will get treated seriously if I were to suggest
it on IRC? Because I've experienced quite enough invective for one
week, thankyouverymuch.
On 01/07/12 12:31, john lewis wrote:
I think what is happening with interface designers is that they are
assuming we are all going to be using tablets or screens with touch
interfaces and recent improved GUIs are designed with this in mind.
I hear this a lot. Mostly from people who have never
It wasn't meant in support of Unity
It was your response to Chris' comment that
'There's our way, and there's the wrong way is not an attitude I ever
expected to find so openly espoused in the Unix world, and especially not
in the Linux world.'
That would seem to be your argument in response
I mean, who wants to get stuck on a
proprietary desktop supported by only one commercial Linux
vendoroh.
Like GNOME Shell?
I
guess you're trying to imply that as unity==cannonical so
gnome==redhat but I think you are missing an important point, Gnome is
developed by the Gnome
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:41:39 +0100
Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
On 01/07/12 12:31, john lewis wrote:
I think what is happening with interface designers is that they are
assuming we are all going to be using tablets or screens with touch
interfaces and recent improved GUIs are
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:41:39 +0100
Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
If you look on youtube there's loads of videos of people trying out
Unity on tablets.
I forgot to mention that I barely even know what youtube is ;-)
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On 01/07/12 12:50, Vic wrote:
The test machine was a Lenovo ThinkPad T410i running Ubuntu Natty with
unity 3.8.2-0ubuntu1 and compiz 1:0.9.4git20110322-0ubuntu5.
So it's not a side-by-side test to see which model users prefer, it's a
simplistic can they use this model?
That's not the goal of
On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
A bit late to this discussion, but never mind.
I gave up on Unity *very* quickly. it took me a good (bad!) fifteen
minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I concluded it was
not for me, at all - I switched to Xfce for now. I may go
On 01/07/12 14:51, Samuel Penn wrote:
On Sunday 01 July 2012 10:45:56 Chris Liddell wrote:
SNIP
What GNOME 2 did right, *eventually*, was allow a hell of a lot of the
functionality to be configured by the user, should the user wish to do so.
But it was Gnome 2 which removed all that
On 01/07/12 14:51, Tony Wood wrote:
On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
SNIP
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On 01/07/12 17:13, Chris Liddell wrote:
Maybe I'll ditch the desktop experience, and GUI and go find me a nice
vt100 terminal to work at...
I'd honestly love to have a VT100/101 on my desk for email/irc/shell
stuff. Sadly they rarely pop up on ebay for sale :(
Cheers,
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A few years ago, I was promised a couple of vt100 compatible terminals
(I think they were actually later vtxxx models) from a company that
was ditching the last of it's legacy Unix kit. But it turned out
company policy meant IT equipment had to be destroyed - even stuff
like dumb
On 01/07/12 17:13, Chris Liddell wrote:
On 01/07/12 14:51, Tony Wood wrote:
On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
SNIP
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Thanks all!. I shall work towards grabbing one (sadly Comet (or someone
similar) had them in clearance on fleabay for about £20, they've gone
now :/) £40 is still good value though it sounds :)
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On Sun, Jul 01 at 06:14, c...@spamcop.net wrote:
A few years ago, I was promised a couple of vt100 compatible terminals
(I think they were actually later vtxxx models) from a company that
was ditching the last of it's legacy Unix kit.
Actualy later DEC terminals were rubbish at emulating
As a professional software developer who has been writing programms
since the days of Card Decks, George 3 , SOFOR and paper tape, I find
this latest craze on desktops (Gnome 3, Unity Windows 8) rather
depressing.
(Ignoring the 'touchy feely' of touchscreens that everyone seems to rave
ove
I agree I hate the metro interface, Why Microsoft have decided to include it in
There next server o/s god knows, I hate Unity aswell and prefer the look and
feel of Gnome 2.0 ( Centos) as I have no intention of owning a tablet I won't
be buying a Windows 8 device, Will be using Win 7, Centos
On 01/07/12 22:19, Stephen Davies wrote:
As a professional software developer who has been writing programms
since the days of Card Decks, George 3 , SOFOR and paper tape, I find
this latest craze on desktops (Gnome 3, Unity Windows 8) rather
depressing.
(Ignoring the 'touchy feely' of
Very much with you on this, guys. Touchscreens have thier place, notably for
small displays or kiosks (or other places where separate mice etc. are
impractical), and the GUI design does change to suit them - as it should.
However, the rest of the time (in my case, as near to all the time as
On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
A bit late to this discussion, but never mind.
I gave up on Unity *very* quickly. it took me a good (bad!) fifteen
minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I concluded it was
not for me, at all - I switched to Xfce for now. I may go
On 01/07/12 09:58, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/07/12 02:22, Full Circle Podcast wrote:
Oops, almost forgot, Popey:
You could try other derivatives like Linux Mint with Cinnamon or
Mate, but
I would question the sustainability of those desktops.
Nice plug of the corporate line,
It's not the
On 2 July 2012 05:24, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 l.kobierni...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Trouble is, we slightly longer users in time, are some of the key
recommenders of a distro to new entrants
+1 to that :)
If a desktop cripples established ease-of-use, forcing a completely
different operational
On 01/07/12 10:14, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/07/12 03:11, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
Some private jokery-pokery here
No idea, I think Robin had been on the sherry. :)
But, more pragmatically, how to get Gnome fall-back session ?
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
Logout, log back
On 01/07/12 10:33, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/07/12 10:26, Chris Liddell wrote:
So, clearly I'm wrong. I've always wanted to work the way Unity works, I
just didn't realise it..
I fail to see how being different is 'getting in the way'. There's a
learning curve with many things, but people
On 01/07/12 10:38, Vic wrote:
Just because GNOME 2 did it one way for years, doesn't make it the right
way.
Just because Gnome3 and Unity do it a different way, doesn't make it the
right way.
It would be really nice to have this discussion occasionally without being
told we're just wrong
On 01/07/12 10:48, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 1 July 2012 09:56, Chris Liddell c...@spamcop.net wrote:
A bit late to this discussion, but never mind.
I gave up on Unity *very* quickly. it took me a good (bad!) fifteen
minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I
On 01/07/12 10:52, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/07/12 10:38, Vic wrote:
Just because Gnome3 and Unity do it a different way, doesn't make it
the
right way.
A convincing argument for GNOME 2 you have there.
It would be really nice to have this discussion occasionally without
being
told we're
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