I just found this site which might be of interest here: http://u-tx.net/index.html
Ubuntu, like Mac OS X, is built around a UNIX-like system. I get the impression that, while Mac OS X is a very good interface, it hasn't really capitalized on the strengths of the UNIX system underneath it. I long felt that free software GUIs seemed to be ashamed of their UNIX underpinnings instead of embracing them. Look at Chris Granger's "Light Table": http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table---a-new-ide-concept/ Not to detract from this great idea in any way, someone should have come up with this over 10 years ago! UNIX is a great system for working with text ( http://theody.net/elements.html ), but only for people with the time and will to slog through man pages. When I say "text" I mean also numeric data. I recently had to work through a few months worth of data to trim it down for someone else to process further. Actually, I had to first gather the data stored inconsistently on a Windows computer. A few months . . . mixed in with nine years of data. I have no clue what I would have done with this on Windows. Forced to use Windows, I would have tried to install Cygwin. Failing that, I guess I would have been trying to import all those files into Excel. Fortunately, I have Ubuntu. I was able to grep, sed, and awk my way through all the files. It was actually fun and I'm thinking of doing something with the whole 9 years. I must note that there was nothing I did that I could not have done on a Mac now; I just haven't given up on a free software desktop OS yet. Relating this to Unity: well, I'm not really sure. When I started writing this, I though Unity was the name for Ubuntu's desktop environment, not just the dash, lenses, menu bar, indicators, notifications, and touch interface. I hope the links I provided prove useful and that this hasn't been off-topic. Oh, there is this: If I had somehow been doing my work through the GUI and not just in a terminal and text editor, my "Recent Files" would have been swamped by a bunch of things that would have been wholly unimportant the next day, and, worse, my recent files which had been of interest would have been pushed aside. There has to be a better way to deal with having different sets of work than creating multiple user accounts for myself. Cheers, Greg -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
