On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 12:37 +0100, gazz wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 21:30 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > > On 6 June 2011 15:57, gazz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Ah, dunno, haven't actually looked at Gnome 3 yet . . . if it's as bad as > > > Unity - eeek! > > > > Unity is a /lot/ more like traditional GNOME 2 than GNOME 3 is. > > > > Put in the time to learn Unity. It is a pretty decent GUI, honestly. I > > don't understand why people are whinging so much about it. It's fine, > > it's just different. > > Well, I spose this is the way things are going so I've bitten the > bullet and switched to Unity - in any case, I'll have to be able to > train people on it <sigh> > > It has some really nice features, it's true - but it's the stubborn > fixity of it that drives me nuts. I can't have my usual widgets and it > really is very, very clunky having to cycle through all the open > windows constantly. It's clunky to click both buttons on a laptop > touchpad, don't wanna! It's much easier to point and tap). I want my > weather widget back waaaaaaah! And I mostly use tree view in Nautilus > - but the mountable nfs partitions I have in fstab only show under > places view so they can be mounted in the gui. I used to solve this by > using the disk-mounter widget on a panel but it's vanished. So now I'm > endlessly switching between tree and places view in nautilus - unless > I want to flip open a terminal every time I need to mount a network > partition. (I know you're going to ask why I don't automount them - > well, cos they're on a laptop and I don't want errors when they're not > available). > > It's also annoyingly buggy - but, of course, that'll improve so not > really worth whinging about now - but doesn't exactly reduce my > overall annoyance. It has a very 'alpha' feel about it. Then there are > niggly little things - like I can't work out how to assign an icon to > something that I put on the launcher which clearly doesn't have a > native launcher icon (such as sync-ui which I use a lot - I have to > tell several buttons with just grey questionmarks on them apart by > their position on the launcher - not good). If someone knows how to do > this, it'd be very welcome. It took me a month of sundays to resize > the launcher bar and autohide it - trawling all over the compiz > settings manager is no fun either and the customisation rewards are > small. > > On the good side - I especially like the feature where the super key > allocates numbers to application shortcuts (although it's a pity this > only goes up to 9 so if I want something lower down I have to start > again with the touchpad). I like the way all the windows will tile on > the desktop (not sure where I clicked to get it to do that though > lol). I also really like the way you can search quickly for an app, > whose name you know but isn't in the launcher, and launch it very > fast. But if you *don't* remember the name of the app, it'll take you > all week to find it . . . > > Overall, my feeling about it is that if you use your PC as an Ubuntu > One 'toaster' it's great. If one of the things you loved about > Linux/GNOME was the enormous flexibility of the customisable desktop > and widgets you'll hate it. > > It feels like lego. I've been using Unity for a few days and I'm > really experiencing it as limited and clunky - I'm using keyboard > shortcuts I haven't bothered with for years and re-discovering the > tedium of endlessly cycling through windows. It feels retrogressive to > me. > > I'm finding more stuff that it *does* do all the time though, and no > doubt I'll get more used to it - and it'll improve - but can't we have > a bit more customisation and control - widgets and stuff? Or am I > missing something? > > Paula
Paula Your comments would be welcome on the Ayatana mailing list (https://launchpad.net/~ayatana). At least by me. I quite like Unity, but there is a lot missing (like your 'usual widgets'). Something I am trying to get across to them there. By the way, have you discovered Super-W yet - for seeing all your windows in one go. Tony -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
