@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 notion with forward-going Ubuntu support for a Linux alternative to Win/Mac on the desktop. 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. Let me put it as succinctly as I can: to many of us outside of Cannonical it seems like you've done this: $ cd /pub/cannonical/ubuntu-spins $ ls -d ubuntu-default ubuntu-default -> desktop-spin $ ln -fs netbook-spin ubuntu-default $ rm ubuntu-netbook # redundant now And we're trying to figure out if the next step is $ rm -rf desktop-ubuntu or $ ln -fs desktop-spin desktop-ubuntu I also understand that you're shifting focus to branded sales of desktops, but anyone who has a non-boxed/branded desktop is likely to have just ever-so slightly unusual of a configuration of hardware. If Unity is to omit any configuration that allows for adaptation to hardware/locality configurations, then such a user is not target audience and should be made aware and/or directed to a "power user" spin or something. At heart here is the question of: Is the Unity philosophy "all options are bad" or is there a line? Can I tell it what language I speak? Can I tell it to render text right-to-left? Can I tell it which side of the screen is my natural anchor, not just for text but for the launch bar? Can I tell it to use high-contrast colors because my sight is impaired? Can I tell it what colors to use because I have color blindness? Can I customize the color of every line, widget, character, use-case and time of year? If you can create policies to answer these questions, I think you have a great opportunity (regardless of the specific answers to the issues of my own specific interest) for Unity, because arbitrary limits on configurability in a device are equally as bad as too few or too many. -- 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-design/+bug/882274/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
