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 prefer keyboard navigation over mouse, so with the dash search actually working now, I'm actually faster finding a program I want to use than browsing through the multi-level menu. Search is pretty reliable and also surprisingly snappy. I do miss a quick keyboard way of actually launching the found program with the keyboard, something like "Tab, Enter" to select and launch the first hit (or cursor down, Enter, or just Enter to launch the first hit if you don't need to select). I hear that's being worked on, though. Once that works, I find launching apps better than ever before. I find the default contents of the dash rather uninteresting for me, though. I wish I could remove some of the default shortcuts there, and instead add my own. Is that planned? I'm still missing some panel applets which I had before, in particular the system monitor and the full gtimelog applet (it now has indicator support, but that doesn't give you the time of the current task, just the logo). But this is also a matter of getting used to it. I never really used zeitgeist before, but it keeps a surprisingly good track of the files I touched recently. I just wish the dash search would also actually find files instead of just applications, but I take it that's a bug? (It has a category "files" but "no matches found"). > * Stability (knowing that we are entering a heavy bug fixing time!) Since Alpha-3 I have had surprisingly few crashes. Well done everyone, you did an amazing job at fixing stuff in the last three weeks! (Before that it was basically unusable for longer desktop sessions) The issues that remain annoying for me are mostly compiz related: wild displacement of windows (apparently in an effort to avoid overlapping with the launcher), the non-working edge snapping of windows, and the spillover of window shadows to the next workspace (leading to focussing that window instead of operating controls in the current window). Also, it still steals control (and pretty much all other) keys from e. g. mumble, so I'm stuck with having no push-to-talk key. On the launcher side, I still have cases were mouse-ing over the Ubuntu logo only gives me a semi-transparent (ghost-like) nonoperational launcher which sometimes even doesn't go away at all any more. But all those are bugs, and when looking at the current pace I'm very hopeful that these can get ironed out soon. In summary, I had feared a lot worse when I heard about the complete rewrite for natty. I'm truly optimistic now that we can deliver something great! > * Highlights and favorite features As I wrote above, quick search in the dash is my killer feature, especially when it's getting completed with file find and keyboard selection. My other highlight is the rather sensible handling of the Windows key. I never used it at all before unity, but now the Windows+Number shortcuts or Windows - type search string operations are very quick and efficient. > * Perceived shortcomings and/or "wishlist" items Already handled above. Thanks! Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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