On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 17:20, Tom <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > As i understand it the Unity interface has something crucial or at least more > easily implemented than > other UIs. Touchscreen.
Could be - have seen impressing videos with Ubuntu on the Phone. However, > Unity can catch-up with what power-users want later. It also offers more > opportunities for > revolutionising the UI in ways other UIs could never hope for. I hope that I don't have to wait too long for the things I require... On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 18:28, houstonbofh <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > On 02/23/2012 10:20 AM, Tom wrote: >>Unity can catch-up with what power-users want later. > This is the big mistake. Power users are your base, and a lot of them > HATE Unity and Gnome 3. I do not hate Unity - I find a lot of plus but also a lot of minus. >From my point of view Canonical was too early setting Unity as default. > Many of us have halted on 10.04, or have moved > to XFCE, or KDE (now unsupported...) and these people are no longer able > to help with questions. I know that in my case I stoped contributing in > the newbie forums when my only answer to every post was "Roll back to > Gnome 2." Indeed. In my local Ubuntu community most switched to Mint because they try to still offer a Gnome2 look and feel (which IMHO is of course only possible with some quirks), some switched to a completely different distribution or on the way doing so. I personally do not want to leave Ubuntu because from what I have seen yet, Ubuntu so far did the best job in my opinion. Of course there are big challenges today. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 19:19, Tom <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > True. I don't think this path would have been chosen if there had been any > choice about it. I think we had 2 choices > 1. stick with Gnome which had no touchscreen support and no intention of > building that in any-time in the next few years plus watch Gnome > 1.a) Watch Gnome head towards where Unity is now > 1.b) copy Mint's idea of developing a "plugin" for gnome3 to make it look > more like gnome2, with an ever increasing amount of work to keep the plugin > working > > 2. Find something else that did have touchscreen support (or could > develop it fairly easily) and was willing to be developed in a direction > that might gain a larger user-share It's not only about the touch-screen stuff - even just looking at the desktop, I find Gnome 3 failing in a similar way that when KDE did their last major release update. > Mint chose option 1b > which gives us all at least 1 possible place to go in the short-term but > it's an untenable position so hopefully Ubuntu's position will prove > best in the longer-term Yes, I also think, that Ubuntu has chosen the better path for the longer term! > Don't forget that support for the 10.04 LTS lasts until at least 2013, > April so if the 12.04 LTS is not what we would hope then we still have a > year more after that. Probably I should consider sticking a little longer to 10.04 - but I did not have a look at 12.04 so far, so that is the first step for me! Be it only to contribute with testing! Best regards, Martin. -- Martin Wildam http://sites.google.com/site/mwildam/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs