On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 12:15 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > Hey, > > I finally got around to making a simple intro to the Unity desktop. Some > of you may find it useful for other new users. Feedback welcome. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA9EHaNc2VI > > Cheers,
Hi Alan, Thanks for making and posting that. It helps a lot to see what it looks like before trying to use it in anger. I can see a number of things that I likely will like and use. There are still a number of things that worry me personally; a couple below. I typically set up my desktop so that focus is with the cursor, rather than the last window on which I clicked. The important aspect of that for me is that I can type into a background window, whilst watching a foreground window for consequences. The new menu bar at the top of the desktop presumably is with the focus, but with my background/foreground setup, I can't presently see how that can work, as I can never get to that menu bar with a window in focus. Is there a way to resolve that? I presume the same would apply with the Alt-something menus, too. Is there a means to stop the defocus 'glass' effects? I absolutely hate defocussed stuff as my eyes always want to try to focus them and, can't of course. Actually is there a quick way to get rid of all such effects .. fading/sliding menus, beeps and boings and so on? I know they're perceived as 'sexy', but the wait to complete always irritates, and extraneous effects are just a distraction. (I normally don't even have a desktop background image .. just a solid colour.) BTW, FWIW, I personally find most of the 'recently used' lists useless as I just use too many tools at any one time for them to keep up. Hm .. I had exactly the same trouble trying to use cloud storage for backup. Within a fairly short while the cloud was 1500 files behind the PC. Thanks. Gordon. -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------
