I'm not a big fan of the new "landscape" monitors. I use an older 4:3 20 inch LCD because I like the vertical space for text reading/writing work. I dread the day it gives out because only the band-aid form-factor monitors seem to be available now. They don't deliver the vertical size I like without going into something like a 27 inch or larger, a seriously spendy proposition. The 16:9 monitor may be great for watching movies online or for HD gamers but that's what I have a TV for; a 4:3 form-factor makes more sense for my desktop PS use.
I can see where the Unity interface is well suited for the 16:9 style though. There really isn't much else to do with that extra space on the left (unless one has a LOT of desktop icons) so moving a panel from top to side is logical. Unity seems to be working out as it was intended and the rest of Ubuntu 11.4 has settled down to the point where I can rely on it. On 05/04/2011 07:45 PM, Erik Lane wrote: > I wanted to wait until I had spent enough time with it to get a better > impression, but overall I'm very happy with it. I *LIKE* that it got rid of > some of the bars on top and bottom that were valuable space to me. The > pop-up menu bar and having the launcher on the side are both great > improvements, in my book. I have a widescreen monitor, and vertical space is > much more crowded. Having the launcher on the side uses a part of the screen > that normally gets much less use on my computer than most of it. I'm loving > the difference. I think that Ubuntu is going in a good direction - I can > still get to low level stuff if I need to, but so far everything has worked > so well out of the box that I haven't had to do much command line. It's > still been easy to get to for the couple of things I've needed. > > Short story - I'm sold on it. > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
