Ubuntu Developers, Have you noticed the MASSIVE exodus from Ubuntu once the unity desktop was shoved down our throats? What is wrong with Gnome? I wound up going back to Xubuntu just to have a workable interface.
Just my two cents, Tony Weitekamp ______________________________________________________ Windows - - - - - Where do you want to be tomorrow? MacOSX - - - - - Where do you want to be today? Ubuntu - - - - - Are you coming or what? On Thu, December 1, 2011 4:07 am, ubuntu-devel-discuss-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Send Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ubuntu-devel-discuss-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ubuntu-devel-discuss-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-devel-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering (Colin Watson) > 2. Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering (Alessio Treglia) > 3. Horea ?i-a l?sat un mesaj... (Badoo) > 4. An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic" menu > into Unity (Ray Perigo) > 5. Re: An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic" > menu into Unity (Mayank Rungta) > 6. Re2: An idea about unity and classic stuff (David Gao) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:56:07 +0000 > From: Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering > Message-ID: <20111130125607.gc19...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 07:34:01PM +0100, OrazioPirataDelloSpazio > (Lorenzo) wrote: >> However UCK works great with 11.04 but stops working with Ubuntu 11.10 >> alternate. Something is changed from 11.04 to 11.10 and the developers >> of UCK don't figure out what it is. >> >> Every remastered iso give an error: "Debootstrap-Warnining". On the >> error console we see these errors [2]. > > Please post a complete syslog, not just a screenshot of one page of it. > It's impossible to tell what's wrong from a single page. You can > extract it using "Save debug logs" from the installer main menu. > > If I had to guess, I'd say that something broke the Priority fields when > regenerating the Packages file. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:03:53 +0100 > From: Alessio Treglia <quadris...@ubuntu.com> > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering > Message-ID: > <CAMHuwozwo2-BDaSFN-VwLnbK=1mdcswrwf8ughv71ylcyd3...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > > few hours ago I uploaded the new upstream release 2.4.5 to Precise, > which should fix that. > I'll ask a backport for Oneiric as soon as possibile. > > Regards, > > -- > Alessio Treglia ? ? ? ? ?| www.alessiotreglia.com > Debian Developer ? ? ? ? | ales...@debian.org > Ubuntu Core Developer ? ?| quadris...@ubuntu.com > 0FEC 59A5 E18E E04F 6D40 593B 45D4 8C7C DCFC 3FD0 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:21:40 +0000 > From: Badoo <nore...@badoo.com> > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Horea ?i-a l?sat un mesaj... > Message-ID: > <mailman.8236.1322734025.29417.ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Horea ?i-a l?sat un mesaj... > > Con?inut mesajului ?i expeditorul s?u nu sunt vizibili dec?t pentru tine > ?i ?i po?i ?terge oric?nd dore?ti. Po?i s? r?spunzi imediat la mesaj prin > sistemul nostru de mesagerie. Ca s? afli ce ?i-a scris, urmeaz? acest > link: > http://eu1.badoo.com/0262448974/in/0ZP5c3kfJxo/?lang_id=62&m=21&mid=4ed6742700000000003e0000f0b60fa3 > > Te mai a?teapt? ?i alt? lume > Yusuf (Male, Maldive) > Papiu (Turda, Rom?nia) > Laptes (Turda, Rom?nia) > > http://eu1.badoo.com/0262448974/in/0ZP5c3kfJxo/?lang_id=62&m=21&mid=4ed6742700000000003e0000f0b60fa3 > > Dac? linkul din acest mesaj nu se deschide direct, copiaz?-l ?i lipe?te-l > ?ntr-o fereastr? nou?. > > Acest email face parte din procedura de trimitere a unui mesaj trimis de > Horea. Dac? ai primit acest email din gre?eal? te rug?m s?-l ignori. > Mesajul va fi ?ters din sistemul nostru ?n scurt timp. > > Distrac?ie pl?cut?! > Echipa Badoo > > > Acest email ?i-a fost trimis pentru c? un utilizator Badoo ?i-a l?sat un > mesaj pe Badoo. Acest email este generat automat. R?spunsurile la acest > mesaj nu vor fi monitorizate ?i nu for primi niciun alt r?spuns. Dac? nu > vrei s? mai prime?ti alte mesaje de la Badoo, te rug?m notific?-ne: > http://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=62&mail_code=21&email=ubuntu-devel-discuss%40lists.ubuntu.com&secret=&block_code=badb85&m=21&mid=4ed6742700000000003e0000f0b60fa3 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/attachments/20111130/c8c1e943/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:02:26 -0500 > From: Ray Perigo <immerohneg...@gmail.com> > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic" menu > into Unity > Message-ID: > <CAK-_fqGsBHBWwENydmy-m4=5pmgcwolbtgqn-wt1v+hj+rr...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > There seems to be much griping going about regarding Unity, in particular > the lack of a "classic" menu - admittedly, I'm one of those gripers. I see > no reason why a simple applications (a-la GNOME 2.x) menu can't be added > as > a right-click function on the Dash button. This sort of menu is a > must-have > for a lot of users, and this sort of implementation would allow it to > coexist peacefully with the Dash/Lenses. > > Cheers, > Ray Perigo > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/attachments/20111130/e7747ae7/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:44:40 +0530 > From: Mayank Rungta <mr.m...@gmail.com> > To: Ray Perigo <immerohneg...@gmail.com> > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: An idea/feature request for incorporating a "Classic" > menu into Unity > Message-ID: <4ed73770.9070...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > 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. > > 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? 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? > > 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. > > -- > MAnY thANKs > http://ngopost.org > http://rideacycle.org > https://gist.com/mayank > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vConnect-Blr/ > Small Loans, Big Impacts. Invest in www.rangde.org today! > For a greener Bangalore - http://tiny.cc/blrtreeplanting > > -- > http://www.ngopost.org/story/video-story-broke-why-theres-still-plenty-money-build-better-future > o__ > _> /__ > (_) \(_)... Burn fat not fuel - Byke along to a healthier lyfe and cleaner > world! :) > Join the club - http://bangalorebikersclub.com > > > On 12/01/2011 08:32 AM, Ray Perigo wrote: >> There seems to be much griping going about regarding Unity, in >> particular the lack of a "classic" menu - admittedly, I'm one of those >> gripers. I see no reason why a simple applications (a-la GNOME 2.x) >> menu can't be added as a right-click function on the Dash button. This >> sort of menu is a must-have for a lot of users, and this sort of >> implementation would allow it to coexist peacefully with the >> Dash/Lenses. >> >> Cheers, >> Ray Perigo >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/attachments/20111201/d850479c/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:08:06 +0800 > From: "David Gao" <davidgao1...@163.com> > To: Ubuntu <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re2: An idea about unity and classic stuff > Message-ID: <sylxcxnkpv55.35vwz...@smtp.163.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Well, I like unity, but I still think it good to add some classic > elements. I think we at least need a classic menu, and some panels. Unity > has a great launcher, which reduces my clicks a lot. The lens just mix > everything together, and can be a great problem when I have plenty of > music and applications stored on my computer. I have to always search. I > wonder if we could have something like folders in our lens, and do not > have to always show everything in the category. > I hope you can understand what I say because I am not a native English > speaker. > > Best wishes for ubuntu, unity and everyone. > David Gao > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > > End of Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 1 > *************************************************** > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
