Re: 5 Out Of 11 Participants Crashed Unity In Canonical’s Study

[Liam Proven]

On 16 April 2011 17:24, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 April 2011 15:55, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 April 2011 15:36, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> http://digitizor.com/2011/04/15/crashed-unity-canonical-study/
>
>> Oops, sorry - didn't see that DG had already posted this.
>
>
> Matthew Thomas' original mailing message was most acerb, in his usual
> fashion. I get the feeling he is less than impressed with the
> realisation of Unity.
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html

Yes, I saw that from your earlier message. Not impressive, but then, I
suspect a lot of long-time Windows users would be all at sea on a Mac,
too. I've seen it happen. Sadly, to many people now, computers =
Windows.

I am not sure the OS X Dock is hugely intuitive. After a few seconds'
clicking, I worked out how to open a 2nd terminal window or Firefox
window in the Unity NotADock™. UNAD. I like that. I hereby move that
it is named the "Unad."

I am actually kinda looking forward to it, in an odd way. I've finally
given up on vertical panels in GNOME - my combination of a vertical
launcher panel and ADeskBar was fairly stable in 10.04, but it had
snags: the GNOME clock just stopped sometimes, and the panel would
regularly become unresponsive and need to be clicked on/clicked off
(i.e. on the background) and then clicked on again to operate
controls.

But in 10.10, it's worse. Every morning, my left-hand panel has
randomly moved itself into the middle of the screen; I have to
right-click a hide button, click Expand, at which point it snaps back
to the left edge, then untick Expand again to put it back where it
belongs.

I also discovered that right-clicking an icon in the ADeskBar program
switcher and picking "close" /always/ closes the wrong window. I can't
work out the pattern but it's always a different window than the one
selected.

So I've given up and reset to default panels - I put the top one at
the bottom of my left monitor and the bottom one at the bottom of my
right monitor. Works for me. Not ideal, but works.

I am quite liking the idea of a single left-side Unad. I'll just try
to learn how to work it. At present I can't work out how to reliably
unhide it, or come to that, how to stop it hiding.

And I /really/ miss my programs menu. All-in-one-place or search is
/not/ a good replacement. Categorisation is very useful as a way to
reduce complexity.

What I don't much like is the Amiga-style menu bar. (I.e., top of the
screen, like a Mac, but hidden by default, like an Amiga.) Worst of
both worlds.

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