2012/4/11 Dane Mutters <dmutt...@gmail.com>: > There's somewhat more to it than that. The major issue (among many other > issues) is that the new GUIs don't do the things that used to be available > on the old one (Gnome 2). Example: I can't add a good system monitor to > Gnome 3 because the old gnome-system-monitor applet (being an applet at all, > apparently) is incompatible with Gnome 3.
Not sure about the system monitor applet case (I'm not using one), but there is at least indicator-multiload now. For me, usually using development versions and not sticking with LTS, losing the weather information was unfortunate at the time. Currently I'm personally not missing anything anymore (although weather info should be a default feature), and the Unity in 12.04 feels more productive than GNOME 2 ever did. Mostly because of super + (shift + ) numbers, super + (shift +) alt + arrows and the Dash search features, plus the screen space (even though I've 1600x900 display). The search features for accessing recent documents and apps is much nicer than browsing through the menus, at least after getting used to it. It did take learning time to become not annoyed with Unity, although now if I'd start with 12.04 the situation would be more welcome, because it's that much more stable and faster. I'm not that much against change, so the biggest irritation for me was all the bugs previously. Also the simple thing of showing quick help when keeping Super pressed down helps a lot in learning how to use Unity more powerfully. I can understand the pain people have gone through if using Unity since 11.04 (I didn't start to use it back then). I was annoyed with the lack of application menu for a long time, but finally nowadays using the search feels natural and fast, plus navigating menus manually on 10.04 LTS machines feels clunky. Super + A is also available for an access to a list, but I'd prefer it'd be expanded without an extra click. Still, it's not for everyone of course, and is a big change as a sudden switch kind of thing. I also hadn't even realized the missing graphical way of doing desktop launchers, so I learned something from this thread as well. Obviously I haven't used desktop launchers for anything, since I prefer using terminal anyway for such use cases that I could possibly do custom launchers. And I have a big .ssh/config, yes :) -Timo -- 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
