[Bug 78538]

2011-06-17 Thread Patrik Floding
I see this issue as well on Ubuntu in dual head mode. (I don't use nvidia's twinview since it won't allow separate LUTs for each monitor.) Since multi-headed X is a standard Unix feature it would be nice if Firefox handled it correctly. (Ubuntu just now discarded an automatic bug report since

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2011-06-06 Thread Patrik Floding
I have read more comments and other views and have come to the conclusion that Ubuntu may not be for me. On the plus side the installation experience was fantastic, the initial impression from the way it looked was good. On the minus side an update of the system froze the GUI and required a hard

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2011-06-06 Thread Patrik Floding
Unity is not about dumbing down the GUI, but about progressing towards the ultimate user interface, that sweet spot that satisfies everyone There is no such thing. Someone once claimed that everything had already been invented. That is a very similar statement. But thanks for making a fanboy

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2011-06-06 Thread Patrik Floding
Coming back to topic then: I just fired up the Mac OSX and the top bar behaves very much like in Unity. The reason I have never though about the OSX top bar not having tooltips is that all the needed information is available without clicking. (This is not on a laptop, so I don't know what OSX

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2011-06-05 Thread Patrik Floding
Tooltips are a good GUI invention that's been around for ages. I believed something was wrong with the installation when I installed Narwal. Generally Ubuntu has improved a lot, but the missing tooltips is just plain stupid, and it was a pain to find the system configuration stuff -a tooltop for