On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote: > A bit late to this discussion, but never mind..... > > I gave up on Unity *very* quickly..... it took me a good (bad!) fifteen > minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I concluded it was > not for me, at all - I switched to Xfce for now. I may go back to Debian > next time I have to setup a machine. > > This is Unix, for heaven's sake, how can a terminal window *not* be > available right there, "front and centre"? > > I very much feel there is a trend in interface design to favour the > new/occasional user, even when it will inconvenience the experienced > "power user". In truth I have no problem with interfaces being made > easier to drive for the less experienced user, but why does it have to > get in the way of me (as an experienced user) going about things they > way I want to? > > Unity and Gnome3 (I haven't tried KDE in years) both seem to want to > impose a way of working on me, and that's a big reason I wanted to get > away from Windows - I want to tell the computer how to work, not have > the computer tell me how to work! > > I wonder if we'll see an upsurge in "power users" using plain old window > managers, instead of the full "desktop experience" GUIs.... > > Chris > Hi Chris
I think I'm inclined to agree with all of this As an 8 year user of Ubuntu, I too want to do things my way Will certainly consider window manager usage, rather than Unity-for-dummies Thanx, Lesz -- " The power of this life, if men will open their hearts to it, will heal them, will create them anew, physically and spiritually. Here is the gospel of earth, ringing with hope, like May mornings with bird-song, fresh and healthy as fields of young grain. But those who would be healed must absorb it not only into their bodies in daily food and warmth but into their minds, because its spiritual power is more intense. It is not reasonable to suppose that an essence so divine and mysterious as life can be confined to material things; therefore, if our bodies need to be in touch with it so do our minds. The joy of a spring day revives a man's spirit, reacting healthily on the bone and the blood, just as the wholesome juices of plants cleanse the body, reacting on the mind. Let us join in the abundant sacrament--for our bodies the crushed gold of harvest and ripe vine-clusters, for our souls the purple fruit of evening with its innumerable seed of stars ". Vis Medicatrix Naturae, by Mary Webb, in Spring of Joy: Nature Essays, Constable, London, 1917 " -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
