On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 21:30 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 6 June 2011 15:57, gazz <pmg...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Ah, dunno, haven't actually looked at Gnome 3 yet . . . if it's as bad as > > Unity - eeek! > > Unity is a /lot/ more like traditional GNOME 2 than GNOME 3 is. > > Put in the time to learn Unity. It is a pretty decent GUI, honestly. I > don't understand why people are whinging so much about it. It's fine, > it's just different. Well, I spose this is the way things are going so I've bitten the bullet and switched to Unity - in any case, I'll have to be able to train people on it <sigh> It has some really nice features, it's true - but it's the stubborn fixity of it that drives me nuts. I can't have my usual widgets and it really is very, very clunky having to cycle through all the open windows constantly. It's clunky to click both buttons on a laptop touchpad, don't wanna! It's much easier to point and tap). I want my weather widget back waaaaaaah! And I mostly use tree view in Nautilus - but the mountable nfs partitions I have in fstab only show under places view so they can be mounted in the gui. I used to solve this by using the disk-mounter widget on a panel but it's vanished. So now I'm endlessly switching between tree and places view in nautilus - unless I want to flip open a terminal every time I need to mount a network partition. (I know you're going to ask why I don't automount them - well, cos they're on a laptop and I don't want errors when they're not available). It's also annoyingly buggy - but, of course, that'll improve so not really worth whinging about now - but doesn't exactly reduce my overall annoyance. It has a very 'alpha' feel about it. Then there are niggly little things - like I can't work out how to assign an icon to something that I put on the launcher which clearly doesn't have a native launcher icon (such as sync-ui which I use a lot - I have to tell several buttons with just grey questionmarks on them apart by their position on the launcher - not good). If someone knows how to do this, it'd be very welcome. It took me a month of sundays to resize the launcher bar and autohide it - trawling all over the compiz settings manager is no fun either and the customisation rewards are small. On the good side - I especially like the feature where the super key allocates numbers to application shortcuts (although it's a pity this only goes up to 9 so if I want something lower down I have to start again with the touchpad). I like the way all the windows will tile on the desktop (not sure where I clicked to get it to do that though lol). I also really like the way you can search quickly for an app, whose name you know but isn't in the launcher, and launch it very fast. But if you *don't* remember the name of the app, it'll take you all week to find it . . . Overall, my feeling about it is that if you use your PC as an Ubuntu One 'toaster' it's great. If one of the things you loved about Linux/GNOME was the enormous flexibility of the customisable desktop and widgets you'll hate it. It feels like lego. I've been using Unity for a few days and I'm really experiencing it as limited and clunky - I'm using keyboard shortcuts I haven't bothered with for years and re-discovering the tedium of endlessly cycling through windows. It feels retrogressive to me. I'm finding more stuff that it *does* do all the time though, and no doubt I'll get more used to it - and it'll improve - but can't we have a bit more customisation and control - widgets and stuff? Or am I missing something? Paula
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