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Mostly small things like "stickiness" when moving mouse between monitors, or the conflation of apps & windows on the launcher bar that always seemed to make it
by pebers 10y ago
Mostly small things like "stickiness" when moving mouse between monitors, or the conflation of apps & windows on the launcher bar that always seemed to make it hard to switch between different windows in the same app, or launch new windows of the same app.
My memory is a little vague though since I tried it briefly when I got it at work a few years back, didn't like it, and switched to Cinnamon which I've been using since. To be fair to Canonical, that switch was painless and Cinnamon hasn't been without it's little idiosyncrasies as well.
My guess is that people think Canonical should have been focusing more on general distro reliability (e.g. the infamous "/boot fills up with kernels" bug) than reinventing parts of it. Hindsight is 20/20 though, we'd be having a different conversation if Mir had proven a big step forward over X.
- pkd 10y agoI think there is a setting to turn the stickiness off and you can switch between windows of the same application with Alt + Tilde. I guess people were impatient with Unity and found it easier to just switch DE's than to try to figure out how to customize it.
- pebers 10y agoYup, I'm certain there would be a setting to change for the former and a solution for the latter. I was unlikely to sink time into customising it though given that I had nothing invested in learning it and the switch was easy.