Le 28/12/2011 20:40, Nenad Lecek a écrit :
Dear all,
Hi,
as I don't know where to put my comments about Ubuntu 11.10 usability,
I'm posting here. My apologies if this is not the right place, and I'd
be grateful if you point me where to post my comment.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience about Unity, seems quite
a lot got discussed already on the list with other replies so I will
just give some extra informations
IMHO, the Unity is unnecessary, harmful step in wrong direction. The
Unity doesn't help to make user interface more intuitive. Even worse,
it is not solely the issue of quality of implementation, the Unity
design doesn't have potential to serve the user well. My
recommendation is to make the Unity optional and certainly not default
user interface for Ubuntu. Gnome Classic Ubuntu desktop really fits
much, much better.
That's your opinion and a valid one but not one that everybody out there
share. User testing on different groups of people, including non
technical ones, indicated that unity is seeing as a step forward and a
better interface that the old gnome "classic" by most users. They find
it better looking and easier to use.
Now keep into account that unity is new, many of the flaws you list and
other usability issues are known and will be worked, it just didn't
happen yet.
1) Appearing/disappearing left side toolbar doesn't bring anything
compared to Gnome Classic Ubuntu desktop and menu. Why?
The next version of unity will have an option for not hiding the
launcher (the left bar), if you don't like the appearing,disappearing
you will be able to easily change it.
Simply put if you know that you have couple of menus where you
programs are, this is much better/faster than unnecessary
dynamic/uncertainty which Unity provides. BTW, Classic gnome desktop
we had in previous Ubuntu versions was really well structured. Unity
doesn't provide that.
The menus were never "well structured" no,
- categories are not obvious for most people (what is the difference
between accessories, system tools in the application menu and the system
menus? where is the "take a screenshot"?)
- the menus had too many items making it hard to find for what you want
- if you like categories you still have similar categories as filters in
unity
Personally, I do not see the point of promoting Unity as the only
desktop on Ubuntu, because classic gnome desktop was well structured
and good enough. Eventually, only search capability like in Unity
could have been added, although this functionality in Unity is far
from good, currently is just minor convenience.
2) The application menu is shown in main menu toolbar. This is
annoying at best, and from usability point of view very it is a really
poor choice.
That's a known issue and people are looking at addressing it.
Note that it's only an issue for people who use the menus a lot, in most
applications the toolbar icons should be enough for most actions. Look
at somebody using firefox and how much they use the menus for example.
That's not to dismiss the fact that it is an issue for some users, it's
just not one for everybody
3) Performance consideration: seems so that Unity eats performance and
batteries on laptops. Again, no value in service it provides in return.
That's a known issues and high on the list of things to address this cycle
4) Search applications capability in Unity is really poorly designed
and of limited usage. In some cases, you almost have to know exact
name so that application you are searching for could be found. In
others searching application itself has confusing, complex user
interface. This could have been done much better.
Suggestions on how to improve are welcome. The search capability is not
"really poorly designed", it's rather than applications don't provide a
lot of things to search for out of the menu title and description. The
search feature does support keywords though and there are plans to
increase their use starting this cycle, that should improve things quite
a bit if most common applications define a solid set of keywords.
Simplicity in user design, down-to-earth logic could guide designers
to much better user experience with Ubuntu.
You should like unity then, its "simplicity" is somebody most people who
dislike it complain about ;-)
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