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 of controls on the left, the integration of software center inside Unity, (and much more) but I have read the reasons behind it and I understood them. I won’t also refer on design-bugs like alt-tab, that “tabs” you on another workspace(what is the definition of workspace?), or bugs like not support for dual-monitors. Also I ll try to be well-intensioned and to think that Unity came out at same date as GNOME3 randomly and you were honest that you couldn’t include GNOME 3 on 11.04. Apart of these I have some simple questions 1. Why do you really used Compiz and Nux instead of Clutter and Cogl ? Matter of speed is out of question, plus Clutter is superior over Compiz. Don’t even mention documentation that is important for us. Why should to learn Compiz and Nux when most people know Clutter? So it was about licenses? 2. Why do you really broke up with GS? Was the global menus? Was the notifications? Why you just didn’t fork g-Shell the way you wanted? I know, and you know, it would be easier if you had used g-shell as base, and had built your system on it. 3. What really is the Music Lense? A video-clip is Music or Video for you? This is a minor thing, but it shows the whole concept of Unity. And this is, that Unity is for today, tomorrow is totally unclear to you.. 4. How people can write plugins/add ons/extensions for Unity? Are you proud comparing your API vs Shell JavaScript API? 5. Do you know that Ubuntu dedicated Blogs talk more about Shell rather than Unity? Do you know the opinion of power users about Unity? Do you realize that power users give support for the rest of ones? Do you know that is US that we setup Ubuntu for our friends? You think that Canonical has the man-power to solve users questions and to write extensions for Unity? You think that Ubuntu is so strong brand name that can convince people it is the best option? 6. Don’t you think that Linux Desktop has already a strong diversity? If you don’t like Shell, say it straight, we developed Unity because g-Shell is bad or whatever, just make your points clear. I don’t mind that you created Unity. I don’t even mind that you have Unity as default. It bothers me the fact that you don’t have g-Shell installed and give the option for user to choose on lightDM. But most, it bothers me the fact that once again Canonical didn’t support a great product that Open Source developed, and this is GNOME3. 7. Is Unity the right approach for tablets? With Global Menus, and small buttons with a lot options that you hardly need and use? It was you that you advertise the ability of Unity to run both on Small, Big, and Touch Screens. Even the workspaces won’t work that way on small screens. 8. Have you put side to side GNOME 3, Windows 8 & Unity? Do you Mr Sladen and Mr Shuttleworth believe that Unity is prettier ? I ll tell you what I think. I think Unity looks like 5 years old technology. New users that you want to get, wants fancy stuff, usability is a second class citizen. You think that this product will ever get 200m users? Re- think it, before you set targets. 9. You think if you make deals with hardware partners you will sell more Ubuntu? Check again the sales with the Ubuntu pre-installations systems.. Check Nokia’s Maemo... 10. And all the above plus the bugs might be insignificant. You will fix most of them, you will develop a superb compiz, and you will create the perfect Desktop Environment. But I have one huge question that I want you to answer me. And this is the real bug of Unity. What is the future of Unity? Gnome-Shell has no limits in what it can accomplished, both with the technology it uses, along with its clean simple design that let room for everything. Integrated applications that runs inside shell, integrated web-browsers, webkit and html rendering, but more importantly g-shell is a platform to build a DE rather a DE. How do you imagine Unity in 2 years from now? With better scroll-bars and more lenses? You have implemented nice things there, but all of these are minors, nothing really serious... I called Mr Shuttleworth ego because he gives me the impression that he puts Ubuntu over Open Source. With a doubtful product, with unrealistic goals and a software-center that he doesn’t want to share online, isn’t he? And we are not angry users that we question every Canonical’s decision, we are disappointed users that we love Ubuntu and Open Source. Intel OTC and GNOME Foundation gave you 2 great product to use. Just use them. Maemo failed, MeeGo failed, Mac OS (that you copy to a point) failed. do you really think Unity will succeed ? There are solutions to achieve the greatest product, why you deny to follow them? 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