Le 01/12/2011 09:14, Mayank Rungta a écrit :
I am not sure if this is the right forum but since this topic has
been touched I wanted to know how well the unity interface has been
received. I see a lot of posts on returning to the classic gnome. It
appears that there are just too many people out there missing the
classic features.
Unity has been received well by some users and less well by some
others, you mostly read about the unhappy ones on the internet for
several reasons (one being that happy users usually don't feel the
need to start discussions about what is working fine for them, another
ones is that the people who are interested in participating to online
discussions about their computers are also the ones who like to be
able to tweak things and the one that will got unhappy about lack of
customization).
Actually yes most of my circle is filled with people who like things to
work a particular way.
Basic things like Alt Tab behave very differently killing the purpose
of virtual desktops (grouping as you roll through all the windows)
and grouping of similar windows again is a problem as I would have a
particular type of application (say Thunderbird) on the same Desktop.
I can't wait for Alt Tab expand - the older method was so much
simpler and faster. Any particular reason to change it?
No reason, in fact the switcher will be working "by workspace" in the
next version so that should address your issue.
Great! :)
I can't customize any of the panels - can't add shortcuts to panels,
resize them, add panels, etc. The worst part is a lot of these things
I am not even able to revert back to. Why is the new interface so rigid?
Because adding options and customability takes time and efforts and
makes the code harder to maintain and get working (you have complexity
and cases to test every time you give an option), it's also not
something most users care about tweaking (look at windows users or
macos ones to see how many want to tweak their "panel and applets",
most users are just fine with the default layout). Nobody forces you
to use unity, if that sort of customization is important to you, you
can try xfce or kde or gnome-panel for example.
I did try kde - was too slow . As for customization windows at least
allows quick launch icons and moving icons around. Even the fall back
takes me to a rather rigid gnome. Can't change much.
I am myself moving to StumpWM now to make things easier for myself -
at least predictable at a much better performance. A colleague is
even contemplating creating a light weight desktop based on StumpWM
with basic things in place as it is so much faster. Haven't tried
xmonad yet. At least StumpWM gives a good mix of using mouse and
keyboard. But for my newbie friends I was hoping the current
interface was simpler or behaved like the conventional desktop.
Great that you find something that works for you!
Yes I am good or shall be in some time. What I am hoping is the default
works for most people. I have given unity quite some time and I am
hoping it improves in the new releases! :)
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