Panel location goes to personal taste. A lot of people have slagged Unity
over the fact that the launcher bar cannot be moved to top or bottom. I
like my panel on the bottom, someone who started out on Macs will probably
prefer it on the top. No one location can please everyone.
Shutting off desktop icons by default would be enough of a problem for
enough users to drive them to another distro. I still remember not switching
to the GTK 3 version of Nautilus until I desktop icons worked with it, and
that was a common beef against the original release of GNOME 3.0
On 11/16/2013 at 12:49 PM, Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net wrote:
As prep for getting the best experience for 14.04 I would like to
know
what people find anoying about our default desktop. What are the
first
things you change. Not everything you or I find anoying should be
changed
as we are trying not to confuse people new to UbuntuStudio as well.
-I like focus follows mouse. I have used things this way since I
began
using X with fvwm in the 90s. Probably won't get changed due to
all the
windows raised people around.
- default to possition all new windows in centre of the screen.
I would
prefer under mouse... well really I prefer new windows to end up
in clear
desktop space, but we don't seem to have that on xfce. Anyway,
centre of
screen means all the windows go on top of each other :P
- click and double click on the window title bar defaults to
full screen
or other action. The most common reason I click on the title bar
is to
move the window. I would prefer double click to do nothing. (the
first
thing to wear out of a mouse seems to be the left button resulting
in
unintended double clicks)
- scroll wheel on mouse changes workspace. This is really
confusing for
those who have yet to get btheir minds wrapped around more than
one
workspace. This mildly anoying for the rest of us (well me anyway)
as it
means that as soon as the mouse wanders off of the window I am
using the
scroll wheel for scrolling with, I get a blank screen or some
other app
and have to go and find what I was working on again. I think this
should
default to off.
- The bottom pannel
a) the bottom (at least for me) is a bad place for this. Left
side.
Monitors are no longer 3x4, using a side for this instead of
bottom makes
more sense.
b) auto hide results in the application sharing the space the
pannel
takes as well as the whole bottom making it appear that the
application
being used no longer responding even though the mouse is not over
the
mouse itself. This may be fixable by making the pannel less than
100%
c) I find the icon size too big. this is subjective :)
d) Do we need this pannel at all?
e) I think we could pick better apps to populate it.
- The broken top pannel toys... these are being worked on...
probably not
a part of this discusion.
- Desktop icons... first thing I turn off, I fill my desktop
with apps
anyway, getting used to starting/opening things from the desktop
is not
efficient. Probably won't get changed for histerical reasons.
- clock format, and maybe app. We switched to Orage because the
clock
applet doesn't open a calendar when clicked. However, Orage is
more
difficult to set default time/date format. We should watch what
Xubuntu
does here it sounds like they are annoyed too :)
Please comment on any of these and feel free to add your pet
peaves too...
even if they seem opposite to mine. I do know how to set my
desktop the
way I want it, but would prefer that the average and new person
gets the
best workflow without having to learn to set things up. SO please
think in
these terms. We really do want productivity first, and nice looks
right
after that.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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