I am too have been for a long time a Ubuntu's fan. However, I am not trying to be negative but... I would say that Unity's design is way far behind GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. I recommend anybody in this email list try out Fedora 15 & GNOME Shell and learn from their simplicity. (Just my thought, no offense). After couple days get along with Fedora 15 & GNOME Shell I feel that GNOME Shell is more newbie-friendly and productive than Unity. I think Ubuntu should reconsider going back to GNOME...
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist < niklas.s.rosenqv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, my name is Niklas Rosenqvist and I recently sent this message to > David Barth who forwarded it to a couple of people and I thought I > might post it here as well to see what reactions it might get. I'm > fairly new to the ubuntu community and I just joined the ayatana > mailing list so forgive me if I'm doing this the wrong way :) > > This what I sent to David: > > "(...) I've been following the development of Unity closely since the > project got announced and it truly is a revolution in many ways for > the Ubuntu/Linux desktop. I've been playing around with beta2 lately > and feel that there are quite a few areas which need further > improvement. Since I'm rather new to the Ubuntu community I don't > really know how to influence the development of Ubuntu. Therefore I > thought I might give a shot at contacting you and maybe you could > forward this or something. I would greatly appreciate if I got some > response to this, whether it's good ideas or why not. > > Firstly I want to discuss lenses. Lenses are a really clever new > feature in Ubuntu though to me they feel way to bloaty to be a nice > integration to the shell. If I haven't mistakenly overlooked a > setting, the lenses are supposed to be launched from the launcher and > can not easily be found from anywhere else. So the lenses take up a > whole lot of room in the launcher, though the main (or only) > difference between the lenses is that they search for different > things, but they all search. If I would have an AskUbuntu lens, Reddit > lens, YouTube lens etc. it would take up a lot of room. Wouldn't it be > smarter to just have a Lenses application which you from there choose > which lens to search with? When you click the Ubuntu icon in the upper > left corner and get presented with the a couple of shortcuts, why not > present the lenses “Applications”, “Files and Folders”, “More apps” at > the top and then instead of the current fourth lens, or where the > below shortcuts are (“Browse the web” etc.) present the user with > ”More lenses” where you can see all the currently installed lenses? > > At the moment you can view all installed applications in the > ”Applications”-lens. It's easy to search for a program but sometimes > maybe you don't know the name of the program or just want to know what > is installed on your system so it makes sense to have the ”Installed > applications” category. But if you have 100+ applications installed > then it gets really tedious to scroll through that list since they are > all sorted in a grid layout. The lenses should really benefit from > having an option to sort results as lists or other alternatives so > it's easy to scroll through the result and not having to scan both the > width and height of the screen. > > Another feature which the lenses should benefit from is a > ”back”-button where needed. Like in the lens which opens when you > click the Ubuntu icon. > > The Ubuntu button separates from the launchers perfectly and you > understand that it has another function than the rest of the > launchers. But the launcher's trash icon looks exactly as a regular > launcher (which I guess it is, but it's function is more integrated > into the system). It would be better distinguished from the rest of > the launchers if it had a unique look, like the Ubuntu button. Why not > make a divided grey button down there with both the trashcan and the > now seemingly gone “show desktop“-button, with the same icon theme as > the Ubuntu button and the panel? I think that the workspace switcher > also should be down here if it can be added elegantly, it really feels > out of place to have it as a launcher. > > That the settings applications have all been organized into the > “System settings” application is great. It's a nice and tidy way to > administrate your system. Although that it lacks an Unity > configuration application (like the CompizConfig Settings Manager > Unity plugin) is just wrong. Those kind of settings should be easy to > access and not require an extra application. Either include CCSM or > create a Unity specific app (I favor the second option). > > The configurations in the CCSM Unity plugin lacks but one feature, to > be able to configure the launcher transparency and not only the panel > transparency. As default I think it has a too low opacity which can > make the icons hard to distinguish when viewed over a full screen web > page with the background light set to toggle or off. I also fully > understand the need to have a delay to open the launcher when it hides > for a window but the delay is far to long and pauses the work flow. I > suggest that half the time should be default (or make this time a > setting). It might also be useful to be able to handle the window > shadow size from the system settings, without installation of another > application. > > The “aero-snap”-feature is really nice and makes it easier for > handling open windows. When you move a window to the edge of the > screen with normal speed the animation looks good as it expands over > the screen, but when you move it closer pixel by pixel then it just > looks buggy. Why make the animation relative to how close you are to > the edge when even if the animation shows just an inch of enlargement > it snaps to the full size. Make the animation smooth all the way when > you are at the edge of the screen instead to avoid misunderstandings. > This also applies to when opening the launcher by moving the mouse all > the way up in the left corner. When you move your mouse up there you > either want to open the menu lens or something on launcher. If you > open the menu lens, the launcher opens automatically. So why not show > it directly when you are hovering the button instead of when you reach > the corner? > > The Ubuntu Software Center left hand menu looks cramped and could need > a redesign with some more white space. Also please include the Opera > browser and XBMC by default in the canonical partners or something > category. > > Lastly I just want to say that the global menu bar works exceptionally > well and also the overlay scroll bars. Keep up the good job with > making Ubuntu the best PC operating system there is! If the above > features get looked at Ubuntu will be unstoppable!" > > So what is your thoughts? :) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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