G'day Heracles, On Wednesday 13 April 2011 08:22:06 Heracles wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it just me or does anyone else on this list find the unity desktop in > 11.04 beta a PITA. Well, I for one agree. Tried the alpha release and was impressed with the concept but found it unusable due to the total lack of user documentation. Have been struggling with the latest beta-2 release - still no user docs! > > The workspace switcher is stuck in the side panel that is hidden when > anything is on the screen. That is annoying but if you mouse to the left edge of the screen the launcher reappears. Not documented of course!!!
> Nothing is truly configurable. Actually, I think most things are configurable - just that you have to guess or ask on a forum or give up. The user documentation will fix this but many potential users will have given up long before we see "The idiots guide to the unity desktop for dummies and GOFs". > I think we > have finally been able to code something that is at least as bad as or > perhaps even worse than windows. I have noticed a general deterioration in products from Canonical since about V 6.06. Seems that anyone with a modicum of project management skills has move on to greener pastures. Very sad. :-( > Thank the heaven that they had the good > sense to allow the switch back to the classic Gnome desktop. > > Heracles Cheers Glen -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to use and understand. - is this the current Canonical motto? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
