On 6 January 2012 10:41, James Haigh <james.r.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was a keen Unity fan when Natty came out. However, since Oneiric, > Unity is the main reason why I'm still using Natty. > > It has become a lot less usable, and a bit less elegant (Eg: Ubuntu > start button thing). Some of the things that drew me to Natty have > gone. > > It's not the first time that upgrading Ubuntu has lost features, but > usually it's worth it due to other improvements. These things aren't > accidental regressions, they are intentional. I think there should be > some way of communicating to developers positive feedback about > features (not just bugs or feature requests). Otherwise you only hear > when it goes wrong. Something like "I use this feature and it's good! > Please don't remove it!", or at the very least, there should be an > /option/ to enable the feature even if it's no longer default. > > I'm planning on switching to Gnome 3, but why isn't there a flavour of > Ubuntu for Gnome? I want to give out CDs again, but I'm not giving out > any post-Natty version of Unity.
The community is welcome to produce a Ubuntu CD that uses GNOME Shell as the default desktop. Basically, it just needs technical people to step up and do the work required. Here's a recent email asking for help with supporting GNOME on Ubuntu: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-December/003527.html Although on the other hand, installing gnome-shell is very easy in Ubuntu 11.10. And you could always pass out Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or Lubuntu disks. ;-) But I agree with Charlie: Unity in 11.10 is far better than Unity on 11.04. Jeremy Bicha -- 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
