On 21 February 2013 21:21, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/02/13 21:19, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 21 February 2013 17:41, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 21/02/13 17:37, Barry Drake wrote: >>>> >>>> On 21/02/13 17:28, Gareth France wrote: >>>>> >>>>> That's really funny. You've just given the exact same argument I do, >>>>> except I'm saying windows are trading usability and unity is a better >>>>> experience. I really don't see the problem with it. >>>> >>>> >>>> Curiously, last week I put Mint on a spare partition just to take a >>>> look. >>>> I found I was not enjoying the experience! It was only on reflection >>>> that I >>>> realised I was missing the easy Unity experience too much! I find Unity >>>> very usable on PC and netbook (no touch) and everything else feels, >>>> well, >>>> just old fashioned. >>>> >>>> Regards, Barry. >>>> >>> I can't say I love everything about it. Window switching works against me >>> (multiple windows of the same program grouped together) and I can't use >>> keyboard shortcuts like ALT+F any more. I used to use the keyboard to >>> navigate menus a lot and I'm finding I'm just not using the HUD or >>> getting >>> used to those changes at all. But on the whole I do find it to be a fluid >>> experience that I just get on with and I've actually never felt the need >>> to >>> stray from unity, even in it's early days. >> >> The keyboard shortcuts should still work, can you give a specific >> example that does not work? >> >> Colin >> > Correction. They did not work in 12.10 but appear to now be working in > 13.04. Possibly a quirk of my install that got fixed with the upgrade. I > never complained about it because I thought that might be the case anyway.
If it is specifically LibreOffice that you had the problem with then there have been problems in 12.10 see [1] and possibly others. Perhaps LO 4 (or other stuff in Raring) has fixed them. Colin [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
