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By all accounts, Unity continues to improve and actually innovate across releases, but the Canonical guys need to fix one simple thing - the out of the box appe
by dpratt 13y ago
By all accounts, Unity continues to improve and actually innovate across releases, but the Canonical guys need to fix one simple thing - the out of the box appearance of Ubuntu is frankly hideous. They are doing some very interesting things w.r.t. human interaction, but the design is nearly an immediate turnoff to everybody I've shown it to.
I'm well aware that it's infinitely customizable, but that's not a solution. When a large fraction of your userbase makes their very first action after installation to change the color scheme/theme of your OS, you should go back to the drawing board with your designers. The actual paradigm they present to the user is fantastic, but the color scheme is repugnant.
- jiggy2011 13y agoI have never understood why it has such enormous fonts out of the box. The default size of the launcher fills up about 1/4 of my laptop screen.
- dpratt 13y agoI'm with you - I'm running a VM of 13.04 full screen 1920x1200 on a dual monitor machine. The Ubuntu desktop can fit about 40% of the content that the host MacOS install can in the same space. It's frustrating - I shudder to think what it's like in lower resolutions.
- vacri 13y agoUbuntu were the folks who made a printer test page in colour that made giant filled boxes of colour - apparently whoever created it has never purchased printer ink. It has (thankfully) regained some sanity.
- icelancer 13y agoIn this regard, 10.04 was the pinnacle of the appearance of Ubuntu Desktop. Everything since has been a downgrade IMO and that tends to be the consensus on HN as well as other tech portals. Unity is a disaster, as is the forced Amazon search stuff (as you said, opt-out is not a solution).
- joeblau 13y agoI'm with you on this!