About Unity & Gnome Shell... none of them is better than the other. It depends on the users.
I am the kind of user that never open less than 5 windows at a time. As I explained above: 1. Try to open 3 maximized windows of Chrome, 3 maximized windows of LibreOffice, 2 Terminal windows and 1 Nautilus window. 2. Now switch between the windows of different applications. You can easily see that: - In Gnome Shell: I hover the mouse to the top-left, which takes almost 1 second. Then all 9 windows are shown on the screen for me to choose from. This makes things simple and easier. - In Unity: + The best way to switch between applications in Unity is using the keyboard. + Other than that, I will have to hover the mouse to the left and then "guess" "Where is my Chrome/Terminal/LibreOffice icon?" to click on. + This causes lots of confusion and time consuming since everytime I want to switch between DIFFERENT applications I have to "guess" the icon position again. + This should not be a problem if you keep the left panel always visible. However, Gnome Shell does not sacrifice any horizontal screen space and still achieve the result I need. Lastly, please do not use the age of Unity as an excuse. *I am tired of people saying that "Because Unity is just ... months old and Gnome Shell has been.... decades old so Gnome Shell is better".* *Gnome Shell will always be older than Unity and Unity will always use this statement as an excuse for its weaknesses.* Unity will hardly improve if its developers use age to say it is better or worse than Shell. *Weaknesses do not come from age. They come from the design philosophy of the developers. * *If the philosophy is wrong from the start and left unchanged, Unity will hardly gets any better regardless of its age.* On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.com>wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Phong Cao <phn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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... > > Ok im not being negative or anything but both emails you put in on > this thread haven't explained why you think shell is better. > Also it has to be said that Unity (compiz) isn't around very long > compared to Shell since it was made for 3 years and all and > Unity compiz anyway is only 6 months of work ish. The reason why im > mentioning that is there are still many many changes > and iterations to come for Unity in which it will get better. What you > can bank on though is Unity is faster and more stable. > > The cool things about Shell are the really nice looking animations on > things there is a lot of nice finishes on everything and > that stuff comes with time. In terms of Unity and why it is better is > the simplicity you can do a lot more with the search in the > dash than you can with Shell and the sky is the limit on lenses and > all that nice stuff. > > --fagan >
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