My system keeps halting. I guess i completely forgot that i did a PPA upgrade. now it all makes sense.
Thanks!! Deric Stowell Technology Consultant <a href="http://sandyeggoboy.net"/> My profiles: [image: Facebook] <http://facebook.com/Deric.Stowell>[image: Google] <http://google.com/dericnsd>[image: WordPress]<http://sandyeggoboy.net/>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/sandyeggoboy> Signature powered by WiseStamp <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, John Moser <john.r.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/29/11 22:33, Martin Owens wrote: > >> On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 21:11 -0400, John Moser wrote: >> >>> The Gnome developers are also upset at Canonical. No idea why. >>> >> It's because Canonical only ate their ice cream cone and wouldn't eat >> their ice cream. I remember when Gnome developers* built a rocket and >> visited the moon, brought back a whole ton of cheese. >> >> I tell you one thing that'll stop people using Unity... if it doesn't >> actually work. Hardware issues are a lot more pressing that design >> issues, especially now that the design is much more demanding on the >> hardware. >> >> > Maybe, although there's a lot of press going on about this. People have > been critical about Ubuntu doing things they didn't like before, though, and > eventually they just eat it. > > Significantly this time, I've found several issues that make me worry that > Ubuntu might get away with squashing Gnome-shell: > > - I've played with both back and forth now for a while, and Gnome-Shell is > clearly better; people on-line are telling me the same thing. Still, both > are leaving me confused as to where a lot of settings went (mostly, the > appearance-related theming stuff; is everything now going to be dark colors > and blues like some cheap sci-fi flick?), and both have a learning curve. > Unity seems to have no distinction between running applications and > applications you can run, which ... honestly just makes me want to find the > smart phone company that the Ubuntu Developers are working for now and burn > it down with them in it. Abstracting away the concept of whether an > application is already running or not is horrible. > > - Installing Gnome3 from the PPA really does completely hose the system; > after that, Unity and Gnome-classic break, only Gnome-shell works, and > Gnome-shell doesn't work with my ATi card (it skews the contents of windows > diagonally, ad uselessness). Imagine that, I ignored the warnings and > something bad happened. > > Like I said, Ubuntu is Microsofting gnome-shell. They're using their > market clout to squash a product that's better than theirs. I'm waiting to > see Canonical try to absorb the GNOME team. > > > Also I don't like that I can't write anything in python that looks like >> Unity, I have to write it all in C and talk directly to OpenGL, which is >> messy. If I tried to use Gnome3 then I'd end up having to write in >> javascript, which I hate for no apparent reason. >> >> Oh woe! Won't someone let me write cool stuff in python? >> >> Yours with hugs and kisses, Martin Owens >> >> * That ever fictitious collective aggregate. >> >> >> >> > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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