Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-14 Thread A. James Lewis
Well said. I took 1 look at Unity in 11.04 and I decided to stay with Gnome 2.0... but once Gnome 3 came out and 11.10, I ran them both on different machines at home and at work... and now, I find myself preferring Unity over either Gnome 3.x or Gnome 2.x. I NEVER expected that to be the case, I

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread David Klasinc
> _Ubuntu,Please listen to us. The voice from users! _ Dear The Voice [1], I've read your posts and I tried really hard to make out what are you trying to tell us. I really did. It seems to me that you are generally displeased with Ubuntu. Other than that, you generated a lot of noise and made m

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Manish Sinha
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Life Monad wrote: > But when I see Unity,I am confused. Did I need test my program on Unity? > These desktop env have different API &UX. Programs can't do a good > seamless integration with desktop env(also file managers such as Nautilus . > Konqueror). Every des

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Thomas Prost
Am Montag, den 13.02.2012, 12:39 +0800 schrieb Life Monad: BTW:You can image, while user works,he open a new window,...desktop disappears. <-- that´s it ! And as I still like to run my office applications in full size windows, I´m looking forward to forget the unity-crisis for some hours ;-) --

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Thomas Prost
> Don't mistake the loudest opinions for the majority opinion. There > are > plenty of people who, like me, really enjoy using Unity everyday. We > just don't hijack every blog of Google+ comment thread to say so. ... and more probably than not, there are unfortunately just as much people - li

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Life Monad
Sorry,It means : users who agree with me,who like me,tasted ubuntu's new version but disappoint it. ...Hn..Obviously you known. After trying Kubuntu I was a bit annoyed. So, maybe full of complaint. (I know that Canonical will no longer provide financial support to the development of Kubuntu

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Tobia Tesan
Il 13/02/2012 11:35, Life Monad ha scritto: In fact, I also merely use Vim/Emacs/Terminal developping in most time. These suggestions for Ubuntu desktop's development. Pitifully,so far, linux desktop users, geek & tech & programmer are the majority. Maybe ... Linux desktop market share still n

RE: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Gibson, H
-us...@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: br...@ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Fwd:Ubuntu,please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects! On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:24:49 +0800, Ji Cheng wrote: > > *Ubuntu,Please listen to us. The voice from users! * my apolo

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:24:49 +0800, Ji Cheng wrote: > > *Ubuntu,Please listen to us. The voice from users! * my apologies, I seem to have missed the vote that made you my spokesperson. Where and when was it? pgp18Uap4bWBD.pgp Description: PGP signature -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-de

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Tobia Tesan
Il 13/02/2012 10:47, Life Monad ha scritto: Debian,Gentoo,Slackware,Ubuntu I use all four, for different purpouses, of course. You use all four?? GNOME,Unity,KDE,Xfce No. I'm not touching KDE with a 4-foot pole (sorry, KDE folks, you are doing a great job, but I'm just not a KD

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Life Monad
Debian,Gentoo,Slackware,Ubuntu > I use all four, for different purpouses, of course. You use all four?? GNOME,Unity,KDE,Xfce ohdifferent tools for different purposes ohmy god. Maybe that's why linux desktop market share never greater than 10%. All decisions so far regarding Ub

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Tobia Tesan
Il 13/02/2012 04:16, scott ha scritto: On 02/12/2012 09:47 PM, Michael Hall wrote: Please keep in mind that everybody who makes Ubuntu is also an Ubuntu user, and a large portion of Ubuntu's users are also involved in making it. Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com You can't tell by all the ba

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-13 Thread Tobia Tesan
Il 13/02/2012 03:24, Ji Cheng ha scritto: Before,I have start a discussion,complain about kubuntu's performance and ubuntu's useless upgrade. That post is long-winded. So I start a new thread. _Ubuntu,Please listen to us. The voice from users! _ I don't really get it. Ubuntu is *about* a se

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Hall
Unity's unique features are either optional or automatic. If you develop your app using Gtk or Qt, you will automatically get the global menu in Unity. Having an XDG .desktop file will automatically allow your app to be placed on the Unity launcher and, you can optionally extend that with Uni

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-12 Thread Life Monad
Why,I did not choose Unity? I am a developer too. Desktop software design principle (Maybe you know) , for end users, they hope every software has similar appearance, .aka. UX. Similar menu layout,keyshortcuts,status bar,notification area.especially,settings panel. Why not improve GNOME i

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-12 Thread Bilal Akhtar
All decisions so far regarding Ubuntu's design and Unity have been made by large groups of people, and every decision has been influenced a lot by user testing and feedback. And yes, we've been listening to our users. Every. Feedback. Counts. As Michael said, we ourselves are users too. We'd also

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Hall
Don't mistake the loudest opinions for the majority opinion. There are plenty of people who, like me, really enjoy using Unity everyday. We just don't hijack every blog of Google+ comment thread to say so. Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com On 02/12/2012 10:16 PM, scott wrote: On 02/12/2012 0

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-12 Thread scott
On 02/12/2012 09:47 PM, Michael Hall wrote: Please keep in mind that everybody who makes Ubuntu is also an Ubuntu user, and a large portion of Ubuntu's users are also involved in making it. Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com You can't tell by all the backlash against Unity, at the least. Sco

Re: Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Hall
Please keep in mind that everybody who makes Ubuntu is also an Ubuntu user, and a large portion of Ubuntu's users are also involved in making it. Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com On 02/12/2012 09:24 PM, Ji Cheng wrote: Before,I have start a discussion,complain about kubuntu's performance and

Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

2012-02-12 Thread Ji Cheng
Before,I have start a discussion,complain about kubuntu's performance and ubuntu's useless upgrade. That post is long-winded. So I start a new thread. *Ubuntu,Please listen to us. The voice from users! * In my mind,The upgrade of ubuntu becomes useless.I haven't find significant upgrade. Updgrad