Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:29:35AM -0700, Jane Doe wrote: > On my machine that has integrated Intel 845G graphics Natty Alpha 3 defaults > to Software Rasterizer and that means 3D acceleration is not available! The > Mesa DRI Intel(R) 845G GEM 20090712, 1.3 Mesa 7.6 driver and those previous > w

Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-15 Thread Jane Doe
On my machine that has integrated Intel 845G graphics Natty Alpha 3 defaults to Software Rasterizer and that means 3D acceleration is not available! The Mesa DRI Intel(R) 845G GEM 20090712, 1.3 Mesa 7.6 driver and those previous worked fine with Ubuntu for heavy 3D acceleration... -- ubunt

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Jason Warner [2011-03-02 6:28 +1030]: > * The look and feel I really like the maximization of screen real estate. Reducing the "overhead" to just one panel bar and eliminating menus indeed helps quite a bit on smaller screens, and I also appreciate it on my 19" screen. > * Usability I much pref

Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-09 Thread Alexander Wilms
Hi, I hope it isn't too late for feedback, because I think the expose view should be optimized. The desktop views should be centered, a bit bigger and thus saving screen-space and the gradient should be changed, maybe to be completely dark or completely bright. Alexander Wilms

Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-08 Thread Erik Andersen
Hi, Sorry it took me a while to get my thoughts on Unity together. Hopefully it's not to late to turn them in. - Being able to search applications is great. However, we also need categories like the old menus had. - By default, 'installed' is collapsed - Extra space could be categor

Re: Call for Natty Feedback! (application starter)

2011-03-05 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Jason, On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 06:28:24 +1030 Jason Warner wrote: > In particular, I'm interested in seeing > how people feel about: > [...] > > * Usability you cover quite a broad range with that email, to I will just pick out one topic as long it is fresh: My experience as a new user of unity a

RE: Call for Natty Feedback! (Alexander Wilms)

2011-03-02 Thread Alexander Wilms
I just had a look at Gnome Shell an though it's still in farther from release it looks more polished regarding the use on a desktop PC.Compared to Gnome Shell, Unity looks too optimized for netbooks, too squeezed, limited and concentrated while the focus on desktops was lost.Please make the sid

RE: Call for Natty feedback (Alexander Wilms)

2011-03-02 Thread Alexander Wilms
I actually haven't used Unity a lot because I want to wait until it offers a slick experience. But just by looking at the screenshots I can say that I dislike the highlights on the icons in the dash. Compared to Faenza that looks quite hard on the eyes, but maybe that will be solved with the ne

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 13:05 -0800, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > Stabilitywise, I need to use 'unity --reset' still quite a bit, but > otherwise once it's up and running it seems solid. Hello Bryce, That's an interesting comment, I'm rather curious to know why you need to do that? What issues d

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi Vish, On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 13:00, Vishnoo wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:16 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > people who know my posts are aware that i can get lengthy at times, so > > i'll keep it relatively compact today ;) > > Thanks! ;p > you're welcome, anytime ;)

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:16 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > > > people who know my posts are aware that i can get lengthy at times, so > i'll keep it relatively compact today ;) Thanks! ;p > Thanks to everyone who has already committed reviews to this thread, i > enjoyed reading all of

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:34, Chris Coulson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:16 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > 26 Epiphany-webkit should be default browser, since it integrates with > > Unity and neither Chromium nor Firefox do that > > Hi, > > Well, that is going to improve rig

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:16 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > > 26 Epiphany-webkit should be default browser, since it integrates with > Unity and neither Chromium nor Firefox do that Hi, Well, that is going to improve right after Alpha 3 (see [1]). Regards Chris [1] - http://bazaar.la

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 20:58, Jason Warner wrote: > Hello! > > Natty Feature Freeze is here and A3 is upon us! Anyone following along > closely should see and feel a fairly stable and usable system, complete with > Unity and classic Gnome. > > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I'd

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 16:18 -0500, Sean McNamara a écrit : > Hi, Hello, > 1. It's too difficult to get the menu along the left to appear when I > want it to, but it's all too easy to get it to stay when I want it to > go away. I'm always fighting with it: sometimes I want to do something The "

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 13:51 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:18:22PM -0500, Sean McNamara wrote: > > 5. Stability has been poor in my experience; I run into X crashes from > > time to time doing fairly mundane stuff that doesn't trigger a crash > > with Gnome2. > > Can y

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread strycore
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Jason Warner wrote: > Hello! > > Natty Feature Freeze is here and A3 is upon us! Anyone following along > closely should see and feel a fairly stable and usable system, complete with > Unity and classic Gnome. > > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I'

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 06:28 +1030, Jason Warner wrote: > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I'd like it to be > pretty unfiltered and raw. In particular, I'm interested in seeing how > people feel about: So, now that the binary nVidia driver is working in Natty, I was able to try Un

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Dylan McCall
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Jason Warner wrote: > Hello! > Natty Feature Freeze is here and A3 is upon us! Anyone following along > closely should see and feel a fairly stable and usable system, complete with > Unity and classic Gnome. > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I'd l

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:18:22PM -0500, Sean McNamara wrote: > 5. Stability has been poor in my experience; I run into X crashes from > time to time doing fairly mundane stuff that doesn't trigger a crash > with Gnome2. Can you provide a bug # (with a full backtrace if possible)? I'm putting a

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Sean McNamara
Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jason Warner wrote: > Hello! > Natty Feature Freeze is here and A3 is upon us! Anyone following along > closely should see and feel a fairly stable and usable system, complete with > Unity and classic Gnome. > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:28:24AM +1030, Jason Warner wrote: > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I'd like it to be pretty > unfiltered and raw. In particular, I'm interested in seeing how people feel > about: > > * The look and feel > > * Usability > > * Stability (knowing that

Re: Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 06:28 +1030, Jason Warner wrote: > Hello! > > > Natty Feature Freeze is here and A3 is upon us! Anyone following along > closely should see and feel a fairly stable and usable system, > complete with Unity and classic Gnome. > > > I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Uni

Call for Natty Feedback!

2011-03-01 Thread Jason Warner
Hello! Natty Feature Freeze is here and A3 is upon us! Anyone following along closely should see and feel a fairly stable and usable system, complete with Unity and classic Gnome. I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Unity...and I'd like it to be pretty unfiltered and raw. In particular, I'm int