On 6 September 2011 15:03, Paula Graham <pmg...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > Unity's not half as bad on 11.10 - even in alpha it worked better than it > did on 11.04. At the current beta stage, the communication deck (under the > envelope icon) is acting very, very weird but the rest of it is working > pretty well. I'm not getting the dock jamming or completely disappearing, or > the desktop freezing and requiring re-logging in etc etc. Also the > previously godawful alt+tab cycling now works properly - unlike 11.04 where > you couldn't see WTF was going on or tell the app icons apart. The 'put' key > combos work properly too. Integration of Mozilla stuff still sux a bit but > it doesn't seem to be crashing Unity as badly as it did on 11.04. Nice job! > > I'm still not crazy about the loss of widgets and it's crap lack of > customisation options in general (bloody 'ell, you can't even create a > custom launcher in 11.10 without editing a ruddy .desktop file manually - > that really is inconvenient! OK non-techies don't want to run scripts but do > you want to chase people who do away?) but at least it works overall. Also, > it's now very *pretty* - which makes me feel a lot better about it and I can > finally get proper transparency on the dock with compiz manager. > > I had to change my way of working on the desktop drastically but memory of > the pain is now fading.
Very interesting - thanks for that! > Most of all, I did Fossbox' first workshop on 're-use with Ubuntu' with > 11.04 a couple of months ago and all the non-techies really loved the Unity > interface. I thought they'd never work it out as it seems ridiculously > complicated to me but it turns out if you're not used to GNOME classic, it's > actually easier to learn because it's like a smartphone with an app store. > So s'pose that's the proof of the pudding. People aren't expecting to be > able to customise their desktop experience so that's not bothering them > either. And /that/ is fascinating to know! -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
