-- Paula Graham Director | Fossbox http://www.fossbox.org.uk
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 14:45 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > On 26/09/11 13:48, Alan Pope wrote: > > > > I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04? > 1) better focus on accessibility earlier in the cycle > 2) a more testable desktop earlier, this time it has been hard to test > detailed stuff because the huge breakages get in the way. > 3) a more menu-like applications lens, grouping them by category. > 4) window management improvements relating to workspaces so alt-tab > could have a per-workspace scope > 5) aggressive and well funded marketing campaign > 6) change Ubuntu friendly and Ubuntu certified stuff so that the sales > process is part of the certification - i.e. refuse to sell the stuff, > lose the badge. Also withdraw it from all products a vendor makes if > they ship something with EFI secure boot that won't allow non-microsoft > keys. > 7) make an EFI secure boot signed live CD - this will be a problem as it > won't build bit for bit from source. > 8) a pony > 9) moon on a stick > > Alan > > > -- > Libertus Solutions http://libertus.co.uk > > I'll preface this with positive praise for the improvements in Unity in 11.10 which is actually pleasant to use overall - especially the alt+tab switcher is now very functional. But . . . Could we puhleeeeeez be allowed at least some dregs of pitiful control over our Unity Desktops? Custom launchers and widgets? At the moment, the only way I can mount my encfs folders, for example, is in the terminal - unless I want to write a custom launcher by creating desktop files. There used to be a widget but it no longer works and I can't even create a custom launcher without setting aside half an hour. Sync-ui doesn't create a proper launcher button either and it's a total pain in the arse to fix. It's very, very irritating, wastes time and interrupts the flow of my work to have to open a terminal every five minutes when I'm working in LO or something - and I can't see how it inconveniences non-techies to have custom launchers *available*. I want to add buttons to the launcher for repetitive stuff like mounting things and syncing etc. Why is this too much to ask? Paula -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
