Fedora and OpenSuse Linux drop Unity interface efforts

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:56:30 -0500
"Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:

> On 02/19/2011 12:44 PM, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/fedora-and-opensuse-linux-drop-unity-interface-efforts-125
> >>> > > 
> >> > 
> >> > 'Sounds like a LOT of Ubuntu users aren't going to want to
> >> > upgrade. So far, there's nothing compelling in the next release
> >> > for me to want to have problems created by not the best
> >> > development team. It does appear that Canonical has made a
> >> > mistake in it's choice of making Unity it's standard. 
> > Yes, although we shouldn't completely close out the remote and
> > unlikely possibility that the Ubuntu developers know something that
> > you don't ;-)
> 
> That is a given.
> 
> Fred
> 
I've tried giving both Unity and GNOME Shell a real try and find that
both have a lot of promise, especially for the, um, I-ified among
us who prefer icons to actual reading. The inter face(s) are nice and
easy for everyone if a little cumbersome for those who read
well/quickly.  

I do believe that /that/ is the something that Ubu devels know; that
the main populace /and/ main Ubuntu user is dumber every day.

I understand that the recent fad is, for want of a better term, dumbing
down the interface and I can see that it is a logical extension of the
GUI 'dumbing down' the command line or the mouse 'dumbing down'
keyboard usage, and that the newer interfaces are, therefore, /really/
easy-to-use; they are just quite restrictive to the way I'm used to
working, too.

I've given them a try, understanding that they are works in progress
and allowing for that in my evaluation, I hope.  

I don't like either.  I much prefer the regular DE interface of GNOME
and LXDE.  Give me a nice clean background image on the desktop with no
icons or panels, a pop-up panel at top or bottom with icons of my most
used programs, a button for a full text-only menu and a terminal.  Then
I'm a happy little camper.  Old-fashioned, I guess.

Cybe R. Wizard
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