Hi, On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 11:13 +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > 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.
3.8.4 should be much, much more stable, especially if you're on a 64-bit system. The entire team is concentrated on crashers and I think we'll have a very stable Unity by hard-freeze. > 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. Both the panel and the launcher have a11y support but we really wanted to achieve more in this area this cycle but fell a bit short with the Dash. We do have keyboard shortcuts to access the different components: F10 - Opens first available menu in Panel and then left/right arrows let you move between all the menus on the panel Alt+F1 - Focuses the launcher and allows you to keyboard-navigate the icons and also navigate the Quicklists. Super - Opens the Dash > 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. I'll be looking into this, I believe it's because we needlessly initialise the place-daemons during log-in. Regards, -- Neil Jagdish Patel | Technical Lead Desktop Experience Team Canonical 27 Floor, Millbank Tower London SW1P 4QP Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
