I can wholeheartedly confirm this issue in 11.04. It's not that it's totally broken or anything. It's just that it's a design disaster. Even a simple thing like browsing with the mouse to the program I want is virtually impossible to figure out, and ends up taking a half dozen clicks.
The side bar is clunky and I absolutely hate the fact that I have to scroll along it, even with only a hand full of custom launchers. This UI may look nice but as a human I can honestly say that it's the worst desktop UI I've seen in a very long time. I will try to stick it out and get used to it, but chances are I'll be opting out for the classic Gnome UI within a week, and contemplating a move to another distro shortly after. I realise that the Ubuntu team puts a lot of time and effort into improving the UI and I don't mean to be critical. But this new Unity thing just doesn't seem to work for me at any level, and I've been using Linux as a primary desktop for over 10 years. I'm an IT professional with two degrees in computer science. In that time I've seen some pretty terrible UIs, but until now, nothing that feels like it's intentionally designed to be a barrier between me and accessing and using the programs on my computer. I really hope this either gets a major overhaul or gets chucked on the scrap heap. Because I love Ubuntu but I'm just not sure how long I can put up with it. While I'm not a fan of Windows, I think they at least understand that when making a major change like this, that you have to make absolutely sure that you're not getting in the user's way. I realise you don't have the kind of testing team it takes to determine this, so here it is: this interface gets in the user's way! It's a total fail. And it needs to be dropped until such a time as it doesn't get in the user's way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/648180 Title: Unity sucks -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
