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My problem isn't so much with the innovation. My problem is with the lack of choice both Unity and GNOME 3 give to their users. What Ubuntu and GNOME 3 are doi
by pan69 15y ago
My problem isn't so much with the innovation. My problem is with the lack of choice both Unity and GNOME 3 give to their users.
What Ubuntu and GNOME 3 are doing is not giving their users an option. I run Ubuntu on a work station, which is not a tiny screen gadget. I need to do work on this thing and I'd like to get work done.
Both Unity and GNOME 3 are departing from life time engrained metaphors and replacing them with supposedly better ways (whereas beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess). No start menu, or menus at all. No icons on your desktop (wtf do I have a desktop for then?), Massive icons sticking out everywhere taking over valuable screen real-estate and be in your face at all time, etc.
If those new ways of doing things would be optional, at least for now, and either be able to be turned on or off rather than forced down your throat than in my opinion the resistance would have a lot less. Also, if those new ways of doing things would really be better it's something the end users can decide, not 20 people in a focus group.
On top of all this, timing couldn't be worse. Both the introduction of Unity and the discontinuation of GNOME 2...
I currently run Ubuntu 11.04 simply because it's the latest Ubuntu version GNOME 2. I have no intentions to upgrade and I'm looking for an alternative. OS X?
- lhnn 15y agoDebian (Stable and Testing) are running GNOME 2. My issues with Unity, as of Unity 5 (in Ubuntu 12.04): 1) Alt-tab should switch between windows within a workspace. This is HUGE. What is the point of workspaces if your navigation buttons/application launchers ignore the boundries? 2) Clicking on an application launcher should open a new instance of the program, not retrieve a window already open. 3) IF item 2 is to remain true, then the possible windows to re-focus should ONLY be the windows in the current workspace. See item 1. 4) Unity's taskbar should be movable to the bottom of the screen. --- Credit where it's due: Unity 5 allows resizing of the Unity bar, and you can now pin it to the desktop, so it's not constantly popping over the left side of the window when you try to close windows, access menus, etc. One must still install gnome-tweak-tools to edit the font configuration and other things, which is inexcuseable.
- yxhuvud 15y ago2: Use the middle button. It will open a new instance if it makes sense. That is, you will get a new emacs, but not a new thunderbird.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoAre we using the same Gnome 3? It takes up far less screen real-estate than than Gnome 2 did, only a small black bar on the top. There is a "start" menu, in the top left (called Activities).
- tikhonj 15y agoOS X is no alternative--you'll have just as little choice or less there. You should consider KDE--it's a really nice option these days, and easy to configure however you like. Fedora is a great distro if you want to run KDE with minimal setup.
- rmk2 15y agoI also think KDE has come a long way. You can configure it all you want and if you ignore the plasma-stuff widgets, then it doesn't get in the way and is very space-efficient (just a panel really?). I keep hearing good things about Fedora's support for KDE but have not tried it personally. I run KDE on openSUSE and am very happy with it, as well as the community there.