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 we are entering a heavy bug fixing time!) > > * Highlights and favorite features > > * Perceived shortcomings and/or "wishlist" items
I have it installed on a bunch of systems and have been messing with it quite a bit. Stabilitywise, I need to use 'unity --reset' still quite a bit, but otherwise once it's up and running it seems solid. (From working on a lot of bug reports, I know others are running into various crashes/lockups/corruptions/etc., but I just don't run into them much myself. Still, I think there's more than plenty of bug reports to keep us all busy this last remaining month.) On my laptops and especially my netbook I am finding it works well. The menus take a bit of getting used to (I end up mostly launching apps via ctrl+alt+t but that's probably just proof I've turned into an old codger.) On my desktop (dual head) I find the conciseness of interface actually tends to work against the interface a bit for me in this case. At 3840x1200 there is ample screen real estate, so having menus battened down seems to add extra mousework to find apps and get them launched, and switch/select them once they're up. I'd love for there to be an "unfurled" state where the UI displays more stuff when the desktop has a bigger resolution to work in. Currently, I get by with manually launching gnome-panel. I also find myself missing being able to put shortcuts on the menubar. (I know this all adds back cluttery junk to my desktop, but I'm yet learn the new organizational schemes. Okay yeah this removes all doubt as to my old codger status.) Bryce -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
