[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-11 Thread Tal Liron
@Benajmin, Unfortunately your attitude exemplifies the problem. I don't know how you define community, but Launchpad and all the people posting here (and on the related bugs) are an obvious part of the community of Ubuntu users. As are journalists, bloggers, and managers of such sites as Distrowa

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-10 Thread mr.goose
Benjamin. I took great care in my posts *not* to criticise the state of the Ubuntu community in any way at all. My criticisms with regard to engagement were aimed at the seemingly high-handed approach of the leadership and undesirability of forcing a half-finished and some would argue fundamentall

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-09 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
@mr.goose We do not measure community engagement based on Distrowatch rankings and its trivial as to whether Distrowatch rankings are good for measurement of anything and further we do not use sensationalized tech articles to guage whether we are heading in the right direction especially since tho

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-09 Thread mr.goose
@Tal Liron... I was not offering a solution to the core issues raised by this bug. I was careful to describe my suggestions merely as "possible workarounds". Having completely dumped Windows in favour of Ubuntu back in 2007, Unity was very bad news indeed for us. We have paying customers who depen

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-09 Thread Tal Liron
@mr.goose, Marius These are good options for power users, but do not solve the core issues raised by this bug. To revise an idea I raised here before: Perhaps on the login screen (LightDM) there should already be an option to install additional desktops, using a very easy interface. Each desktop

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-09 Thread Marius Kotsbak
You forgot to include that Gnome (3?) is still available: sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback and sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop that gives the LXDE desktop environment. As well as some other more exotic window managers like packages "fluxbox" and "icewm", some of which I think c

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-07-08 Thread mr.goose
For those who dislike Unity intensely but do not want to leave the Ubuntu community (yet) here are couple of possible workarounds that might offer you the familiar look-and-feel you require.:- 1. sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop This will install the beautiful-looking and Windows7-like KDE4 de

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-06-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
** Changed in: unity Assignee: (unassigned) => Unity Team (unity-team) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-06-30 Thread Magnetizer
One would expect that a team working on Unity would know how to create unity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications abou

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-06-17 Thread Kangarooo
Goodly proposed question -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-06-11 Thread papukaija
>From the wiki, "The idea is that bugs can be marked closed, so developers aren't wasting time on them, but discussion can still be on- going. " is quite closed IMO and this bug doesn't even appear in the search results by fefault. So, why has this bug been closed;marked as Opinion? -- You recei

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-06-11 Thread Marius Kotsbak
It is not closed, just changed to status Opinion. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-06-11 Thread papukaija
Could someone pleaase explain why this bug was closed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-02-29 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
** Changed in: ayatana-design Status: Confirmed => Opinion ** Changed in: unity Status: Confirmed => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community enga

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-02-29 Thread Magnes
** Changed in: ayatana-design Status: Opinion => Confirmed ** Changed in: unity Status: Opinion => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community enga

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-02-25 Thread Jochen Fahrner
I can second this bug. For example look at this Apache webdav bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/540747 This is a really nasty bug that makes webdav unusable if you need to work with unix group permissions. They won't fix it for Lucid. They call this "Long term support".

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-01-08 Thread SRoesgen
@Danillo (and @all) What I liked very much about your comment are two things: Firstly: >If there still is activity in a bug and there's even people forking Unity to >fix it, then the bug's not just someone's pet peeve, it's a real problem for a >lot of users. Otherwise, the "affects me too" i

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2012-01-02 Thread Danillo
I'm just an Ubuntu user (been one for 3 and a half years) who believes in the "Debian's arrow" and its philosophy and wants to see free software everywhere, and I would like to add that contrarily to what some people have been saying I am one of those who think that keeping Compiz and going for Uni

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
> No, it's just that we don't have enough people to do the work > and the number of users is higher than the number of people > reading and replying to bugs filed by those users, it's as simple > as that This is where code re-use comes in quite handy; rather than reinventing the wheel. gnome is

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
@s-roesgen > First of all it would be nice to see here some answer to Tal's comment #112, which includes some very good and valid points. done > You think that one should be silent and not complain further if it comes to > certain bugs. They are marked as "won't fix" and > should not be discus

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey again, I can understand where people from but all those comments overlook something easy and it goes down to that: "we don't have enough developpers to reply to every bug report, explain every change which is done, and talk to every community members in Ubuntu", the community is just an order o

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-10 Thread SRoesgen
First of all it would be nice to see here some answer to Tal's comment #112, which includes some very good and valid points. ANd I do not see any sane and logical way to ignore the arguments he gives. But where is the answer to the arguments he wrote? Secondly, concerning kikl's comment (#113): Yo

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-05 Thread Tal Liron
Oops! I'm embarrassed: in my previous comment (112) I refer to "the Mark." It is a typo; I simply meant "Mark." Unfortunately, the typo is suggestive of the angle of criticism that sees Unity as Mark's ego trip. I'll state clearly that I firmly reject such criticism. I see no evidence that any of t

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-04 Thread kikl
Oh, I forgot to add. All power users should merely use the keyboard shortcut "ubuntu-button" and "D" or "window ikon- AAHHRRG;-(" and "D", in order to display/hide the Desktop. All the best. I think "Tal Liron" genuinely cares about Ubuntu. Don't loose him, he is a valuable contributor! Regar

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-04 Thread kikl
Well, I have followed this lively debate and it seems somewhat unproductive. We users must accept that the design is not going to go our way. "Won't" fix is a somewhat hard wording. Maybe something like, "we won't do it", because we do not have the ressources, please do it yourself or find someone

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-03 Thread Tal Liron
Mark, You keep putting the blame on a straw target: people who refuse to accept that their one pet bug is not being addressed. Sure, those people exist, and you attitude concerning them is correct, if too abrupt in tone. But, looking at the vast majority of the comments on these bugs, the substanc

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-03 Thread SRoesgen
Referring to this answer: >If you agree that there should of necessity be some bugs we will not >fix, who do you think should decide which of those suggestions or >wishlist items should be in, and which should be out? Don't you think >the underwriters, designers and developers of the project should

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 03/12/11 01:38, Jonathan Gartner wrote: > Disregarding any portion of the 20 million you > (claim) to have, for the promise of a theoretical 180 million seems to > me a be a very dangerous game to play for a fledgling company. If you take a look at Sebastien's analysis of bug statistics, you'll

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-02 Thread Jonathan Gartner
seems to me to* be a -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-desi

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-02 Thread Jonathan Gartner
I think Mark's general undertone of comments like "Unity was not developed for the Ubuntu community of today, it was developed with love for the Ubuntu community of the future. You're invited to that community, but not required to join it" and his dogged unwillingness in this bug thread to accept t

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-12-02 Thread SRoesgen
Just have a look. Here one can see how dealing with a community can be done easily. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/gnome-shell-extensions-site-enters- alpha-makes-adding-extra-features-easy/ Especially that part hits the mark: This is despite the fact that many of the extensions presently av

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-30 Thread mdsklaroff
I think this is a pretty evenhanded summary of how the problems/bugs with Ubuntu affect the community, and why Canonical should care more: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11352664#post11352664 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-26 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
It would be much more "precise" to change status to "opinion" since there is a difference of opinion surrounding this bug. ** Changed in: ubuntu-community Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: unity Status: Confirmed => Opinion ** Changed in: unity-2d Status: New => Opinion

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-22 Thread Didier Roche
** Changed in: unity Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https:/

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-20 Thread Israel G. Lugo
I would like to humbly quote from someone who once made a very passionate argument for diversity, openness, and knowing how to embrace different ideas from the contributor and user community in a project: > This is a critical juncture for the leadership of Gnome. I’ll state > plainly that I feel t

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-19 Thread Tal Liron
@Randall Good point, and a helpful intervention. Individuals might define their community differently, but piecing together the many voices, and applying some of your language, I'd say that "community" here means: "The current set of long-time, heavy users, as well as advocates, of Ubuntu's main

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-19 Thread Randall Ross (rrnwexec)
This discussion could be much more effective if we agree to get *precise* about which "Community" we are referring to. "Community engagement is broken" is much much too general a bug to fix. It's like saying "Ubuntu is buggy". Can we agree to get more *precise* in this Precise cycle? More here: h

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 19/11/11 04:46, Dwayne Litzenberger wrote: > You're absolutely right: You can't always please everybody; you have > to prioritize. What worries me is that Mark Shuttleworth has stated, > fairly explicitly, that Ubuntu users are not a priority: Hold on a sec. You're extrapolating from the fact t

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-18 Thread Dwayne Litzenberger
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 06:24:43PM -, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >Nobody is denying that there are requests for those changes, but you can >find lot of users requesting any change and often a non trivial number >of users with a different or conflicting opinion ;-) Reality is that >people are diffe

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-17 Thread John Lea
@Bazon (bazonbloch); all bugs that are reported to ayatana-design are reviewed, however we currently have a 3.5 week bug backlog due to UDS so our response time at the moment is a bit slower than usual. We also will be doing a thorough review of all the historical ayatana-design bugs that have acc

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-17 Thread Bazon
thanks for that information and helping to understand processes better. this is the right attitude to get rid of this bug. :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community e

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
> however, a random pick of the first 10 bugs listed in "unity" (all importance "high" or "critical") shows 7 of them were opened by John Lea from Canonical's Design team and those 10 bugs have 29 affected users in total, which makes about 3 affected users per bug. John is working for the Canonica

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-17 Thread Bazon
interesting link, Sebastien. however, a random pick of the first 10 bugs listed in "unity" (all importance "high" or "critical") shows 7 of them were opened by John Lea from Canonical's Design team and those 10 bugs have 29 affected users in total, which makes about 3 affected users per bug. Eve

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
So after thinking a bit about the discussion there I also went to check if "wontfix" without comment is such a trend, over 3 cycles of unity, some stats on unity itself (not counting the other unity components, not counting the bugs reassigned): 5475 bugs got reported (over 8000 counting duplicate

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-16 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Reading this bug I would like to point that webpage to people who care about design interactions and how the community and the unity team interact: http://people.canonical.com/~platform/design/upstream.html That page has been built to make design issues tracking easier, if you look at this page y

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-15 Thread Tal Liron
@Bazon Thanks! As I keep trying to emphasize, I did not open this bug because I think Unity is bad, nor because I want Unity to be something that's it not supposed to be, nor because I'm unaware that there are many other terrific free software alternative, in Ubuntu and beyond. This bug is not ab

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-15 Thread Bazon
@Tal#91: Very good suggestion! Even on ubuntuforums.org I read about people dualbooting between different tastes of ubuntu instead of just selecting another DE in the DM. Also, (as I said before), I'm very happy with Xubuntu+Compiz+Ambiance, so I suppose that or other DE-options could be a solu

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-15 Thread Tal Liron
@Reuben Again and again people forget the "other Ubuntus": Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and -- hopefully soon -- Lubuntu. They are very much supported by the Ubuntu project and by Mark personally. It's curious that when people are disappointed by Unity they turn not to the "other Ubuntus" but to other operat

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-15 Thread Reuben Thum
An interesting comment I've read from a Linux Pro Magazine post about this: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce- Byfield-s-Blog/A-Disturbing-Dialog-About-Ubuntu-and-Unity/ A simple solution for Ubuntu francesco44 Nov 05, 2011 12:08am GMT I have been a happy user of Ub

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-14 Thread Merk
> That's simply not true. There are many bugs, including requests for > changes in behaviour, which get agreed. The issue here is NOT an > unwillingness to listen, on either the part of the developers or the > designers. The issue is a portion of the user base which describes > "won't fix my pet is

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-14 Thread alexis diavatis
Mr Sladen (& Mr Suttleworth): I know that your not a mind-reader as I know that you quite aware of the issues on Unity. However I will list some of them to you and I would much appreciate if you could give me straightforward honest answers. I personally disagree with global menus, the movement

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-14 Thread Bazon
If the phenomena Mark describes is right, it's a matter of selective perception. So maybe it would be helpful to post some links to cases were canonical DID actually fixed usability issues by user request in order to calm the worried ones? (But on the other hand, that won't calm too much as lo

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 13/11/11 21:24, Dwayne Litzenberger wrote: > Allison: The problem expressed in this bug report is that every time a > user complains about having a bad experience with the UI, the response > has been, "WONTFIX". That's simply not true. There are many bugs, including requests for changes in be

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-13 Thread einhverfr
"Trying to force different physical interfaces to use the same GUI is dumb. At best, it'll be a lowest-common-denominator that never helps users kick ass[*]." I generally agree with these points. Design your interfaces around inputs, and use different interfaces for different sets of inputs. Othe

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-13 Thread einhverfr
"@Community - It's only a matter of time until someone writes all those tweaks we're looking for." I think the issue of community engagement though is important in fostering these. Hence my suggestion for a tag to basically treat them as feedback for Canonical's purposes and an invitation for con

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-13 Thread David D Lowe
** Also affects: ubuntu-community Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications abou

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-13 Thread Dwayne Litzenberger
Allison: The problem expressed in this bug report is that every time a user complains about having a bad experience with the UI, the response has been, "WONTFIX". I don't see how your comment changes any of that. The fact that you characterize this thread as "unhealthy" just illustrates the prob

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-13 Thread Tal Liron
@Allison Great news! I think most of us are confident that this bug will be solved, it's just that we're worried about the loss of momentum in the interim. Mark and others keep talking about the future, but I see no reason why some of the damage can't be addressed right now. Let's ensure that 12.

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-13 Thread Allison Randal
This comment is written with love. A bug report isn't the best place to work through relationship issues, but this comment thread is unhealthy enough that I don't want to leave it standing as-is. Just a brief note here, but what really matters aren't words but actions over time. The Ubuntu commun

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-12 Thread Paul Sladen
Alex: It's probably useful if you spell out what you've discovered that is broken about Unity and needs looking into (I'm so, I'm not a mind reader—so even if you feel that both yourself and Mark know the item you have in mind, myself and others following likely don't know). A lot of the time, wha

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-12 Thread Dwayne Litzenberger
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:41:38AM -, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >On 08/11/11 19:31, kfsone wrote: >> However: The direction and changes of 11.x *suggest* to us that Ubuntu >> is swapping from desktop to sub-desktop focus for it's primary >> distribution. > >No. What's happening is that the new f

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-12 Thread Tal Liron
Here's a recent Slashdot writeup of the situation, with many great comments as usual (a.k.a., "whining"): http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/11/1752226/linux-mint-the-new- ubuntu It's a depressing read. (Also, of course, sensational: there's no actual proof that Ubuntu users are switching to

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-12 Thread alexis diavatis
Hello all, I must admit that was the most interesting mailing list I ever read. What was the outcome of it? Nothing, nothing at all. I am very disappointed that people cannot tell the difference between a community and a company. Is not accident that Mr Shuttleworth mentioned Android and Windows

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Taylor
I would like to thank Mark Shuttleworth for his straight talking which has cleared the fog in my head. For weeks I have been using (fighting) Unity with a blind faith that it will refine into a likable and productive Desktop UI that smallish businesses would be seduced by consequently buying into C

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-09 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
As a Ubuntu Member and Contributor I have to say that it saddens me to see so a "heated discussion" in the bug tracker and I personally feel that Community engagement is better here than any other distro or FOSS project. I understand some people are up in arms about Unity and usability issues and t

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 08/11/11 19:31, kfsone wrote: > However: The direction and changes of 11.x *suggest* to us that Ubuntu > is swapping from desktop to sub-desktop focus for it's primary > distribution. No. What's happening is that the new form factors are being integrated into Ubuntu, just as they will be integr

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Paul Sladen
Oliver: it's certainly true that the Unity work has evolved out of and is a continuation of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix interface research work. However, as the substantial user base are desktop users, it's fairly unlikely that Ubuntu would be wishing to upset those existing users intentionally—you no

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Bazon
by the way, mint is doing it exactly right IMHO: "What we’re sure of, is that if people aren’t given the choice they will be frustrated and our vision of an Operating System is that your computer should work for you and make you feel comfortable. So with this in mind, Gnome 3 in Linux Mint 12 ne

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Patricio
I think it's pretty clear that part of the community (me included) is mad because Gnome 3 didn't live up to half the expectations we had from Gnome 2. If it was as good, we wouldn't care about Unity as we have the option to easily install it. Remainder: should Unity not exists, we'd be stuck with

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread kfsone
@Mark Many of us came to Ubuntu from other distros seeing a vital combination of two components: - A viable desktop experience, - The offer of Long Term Stable. I can only speak for the folks who introduced me to Ubuntu and the folks I've brought with me, but we are confused: We'd tied that LTS

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Magnes
@Jon Brase - use middle mouse button (click the wheel). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: http

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Jon Brase
@ Tal Liron >In their rush to hate on Unity, people are forgetting how keyboard-centric >Unity is. Not me. For me, the fact that that keyboard centrism comes at the cost of huge regressions in mouse-centric usability is what kills it for me (that and some configurability issues, but many of thos

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-08 Thread Magnes
> Indicators are menus. All menus behave that way. Is dash also a menu? Because it behaves the same way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-07 Thread wayward4now
When Linus says he uses XFCE, someone's ears ought to perk up. Linus is no Joe Lunchbucket user, afraid of new things. So, I installed XFCE and am happy as a clam. I refuse to use KDE as they have features you can't turn off that consume CPU and power. Thankfully I have choices. If I wanted to use

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-05 Thread Praveen Thivari
I wouldn't mind if they want to the keep the launcher on left forever. How many of us really change any default layout. KDE keeps the taskbar at bottom and I dont change that. Win 7 has it's default at bottom, How many them change. NOT MANY RIGHT? Only thing as a user I ask Unity developers is to

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-05 Thread Tal Liron
@einhverfr I think some people are interpreting Mark's announcement through their own bias. Unity may be friendlier towards tablets than most desktop interfaces, but there's still a long way to go, and indeed that's why the Unity team is setting such a far-off date for tablet support. Try for you

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-05 Thread einhverfr
> There is a reason people don't use Android on their desktop and laptop computers. Absolutely. The fact is, for any of us who spend time thinking about the tradeoffs of command-line vs GUI interfaces, one fact is amazingly clear: Interfaces must be designed around their inputs, not the other wa

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-05 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
All I want is to move the d@#% launch bar to a different side of the screen. I can do this with Windows. I can do this with OS X. I can do this with GNOME. I cannot do this with Unity, because some billionaire says it does not fit with his "vision". Remind me again why I use open source softwa

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-05 Thread Termina
@Jon Brase I'm not sure how useful it will be for Canonical to ignore group #1. Many of us have offered up Ubuntu to friends and family as a replacement for Windows. This includes our computer illiterate friends and family. Most of these people see the interface as the operating system. "Window

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-05 Thread Garthhh
This is an interesting discussion when I look at the entire situation, I probably see it a different way the organizational structure is a mashup of different elements some of the integration between the tools are as MS would put it are suboptimal I know there is no time to to think ways to improv

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Jon Brase
@Mark Shuttleworth: >Nonsense, again. Ubuntu has *always* aimed for usability, always gone >the extra mile to make it easy to install and easy to embrace and easy >to share Linux. I don't think it's cool to be too cool for that mission, >but if you are in fact too cool for that mission, please d

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/11/11 15:49, Bazon wrote: > Pretty much every indicator in Unity has this this 'one click: show, next > click: hide' behaviour: > indicator for network-manager, for sound, for bluetooth, indicator-me, > indicator-messages, indicator for dropbox... > ...even the dash and the workspace switc

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Mike Niland
There is more than one issue with Unity, absolutely, and I probably should have phrased it this way - the community engagement issue is going to come to a head over the launcher. It's likely to be the first flaw a new user encounters in Unity, and certainly generates more forum posts than any of U

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Art Cancro
Canonical (and Mark S. in particular) are openly hostile towards the vast majority of Ubuntu users who have a strong dislike for Unity and want it removed, or at least made optional. Many of us are now, or will soon be, ex-Ubuntu users. Ubuntu has really jumped the shark with this one. Apple can

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Bazon
> As far as I can tell, this is all about one issue - moving the launcher. Absolutely not, there are many more issues- As I said before, the things that trouble me most are bad window and workspace management: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/683170 https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Dwayne Litzenberger
> As far as I can tell, this is all about one issue - moving the launcher. I think the launcher just illustrates a deeper problem with the *attitude* that's been steering Unity development: making the experience better for 180 million hypothetical new users, while neglecting the experience of the

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Mike Niland
As far as I can tell, this is all about one issue - moving the launcher. The left-side launcher is the single point of failure in Unity, which is otherwise a good interface. For whatever design or user testing suggested that every single user wants the launcher on the left, in the real world, some

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
> Why do we always point to Microsoft and Apple as if they're somehow a > reference implementation of great UI design that we just need to copy? There > is *no* point in trying to replicate what Microsoft and Apple have done: > Almost nobody who is happy with Windows or OS X is going to switch to U

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread syadnom
I have effectively abandoned Ubuntu as a result of Unity. I have been a log time converter of friends and family and EVERY person I updated to unity dislikes it immensely. I have moved back to debian proper and have stopped promoting Ubuntu. I don't post here often but I lurk. I do feel that U

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Dwayne Litzenberger
> As a point of reference, Windows 8's Metro user interface is going to > provide a "Windows Classic" workspace for backwards compatibility. This is > an area that Microsoft has consistently gotten right over the years... Why do we always point to Microsoft and Apple as if they're somehow a refere

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
As a point of reference, Windows 8's Metro user interface is going to provide a "Windows Classic" workspace for backwards compatibility. This is an area that Microsoft has consistently gotten right over the years, and thus helped them maintain their position in the market. Even when they make adv

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Bazon
@M.S.#39: >> Also, there are many GUI elements in ubuntu which toggle show/hide by click without changing appearance (@#20), e.g. most indicators. >Which indicators are you referring to? Pretty much every indicator in Unity has this this 'one click: show, next click: hide' behaviour: indicator

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-04 Thread Dwayne Litzenberger
> We have about 20 million users today. We want 200 million users by 2014. > The extra 180 million users are not in the Ubuntu community today, so you > can in a sense say that it's true - Unity was not developed for the Ubuntu > community of today, it was developed with love for the Ubuntu communi

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-03 Thread juancarlospaco
Wow, just imagine ALL that lines of code on Ubuntu... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https:

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-03 Thread Tal Liron
Here's a write up on this issue by Bruce Byfield, with many excellent comments following: http://www.linux-magazine.com/content/view/full/51293 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Ti

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-03 Thread Tal Liron
Friends, I think most of us know how easy it is to switch to GNOME Shell, or even XFCE (or LXDE -- let's not forget it, it's wonderful in its minimalism) in Ubuntu and still stay in a mostly GTK-and-GNOME-like paradigm. For some, that's a perfect solution! But, please try to understand why this is

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-03 Thread Tal Liron
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[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-03 Thread einhverfr
Here are a few thoughts here that may help move a dialog forward. I speak as someone who supports some Ubuntu deployments, as a user, and as an open source software developer who does a lot of work in my own community. The first thing to recognize is that community engagement is always broken. p

Re: [Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-03 Thread Constantine
Re TitanKing: main problem here, averadge user don't know about launchpad, bugreport, maillist e.c. Moreover, they didn't even know that something broken, or work not so good, as supposed to be. 2011/11/3 TitanKing <882...@bugs.launchpad.net> > I think the community is too hard on Shuttleworth an

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-11-02 Thread TitanKing
I think the community is too hard on Shuttleworth and his team (maybe even selfish), they are truly trying to achieve a vision here, lets honor this. I honor what they have done for Linux and open source thus far. I mean I use Launchpad for my own open source projects exclusively and I understand a

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