2011/4/8 Martin Pitt <[email protected]>: > I couldn't have believed it even two months ago still, but today I > feel the same. When I switch back to classic GNOME it feels inferior > now; I'm particularly missing the super-fast keyboard > shortcuts/search/navigation and bigger screen real estate.
I have started to like Unity a lot, at least on a though level and also seeing in practice that it's really improving. The biggest issues have been that unity has been crashing for me all the time. Today is actually the first day that unity/compiz didn't crash within a minute of logging in when alt-tabbing or something similar (then it usually took longer time before it crashed the next time). Fingers crossed that unity 3.8.4 is now actually more stable in real use - same was said about 3.8.2. If it stays for a day of work without crashing, that's a really good accomplishment compared to before. Besides fixing crashers I really would see need for more accessibility support and help. I don't know how to access eg. indicators or system menu from keyboard, which is quite essential for me even without disabilities, but for people with disabilities I believe the accessibility in general is relatively poor at the moment. gnome-shell already has a lot of a11y stuff integrated in 3.0 (considering it's the first stable release), and Ubuntu with accessibility as one of the core Ubuntu philosophy items should have as well. Of course, by 12.04 LTS at least. There are a lot of bugs and lack of features (and many have been fixed already as well) and the performance is quite bad in parts, but those are not as serious as a) crashers and potentially b) accessibility and lack of any help. For 11.10, probably something should be done about the logging in time, with is terrible at least with a traditional spinning, encrypted disk, compared to normal Gnome. Weirdly sometimes I saw a pretty fast logging in even after reboot, but normally it's 30s+ from gdm to desktop. Something is seriously churning the hard disk with seeks, possibly something that only occurs with specific conditions. -Timo -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
