Unity interface

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 7 01:24:15 UTC 2011


On 03/02/2011 11:47 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 03:48, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Doesn't work worth a crap (11.04) on a 1 year old HP G60-530US laptop.
>> Crashes as soon as it comes up & I have to run Gnome instead.
> 
> You filed bugs for those crashes? Got bug numbers?

Well Alan, no I don't. If I find time I'll start next week.

> 
>> IMO Unity is a total mess.
> 
> We're not even at beta. It's been a rocky road but it's getting better
> every week IMO. I run it on my main desktop and a laptop. Compiz is
> the least stable bit, not Unity IME.

IMO it's not getting better. The basic premise of swapping everyone over
to Unity (modified Gnome3) as default is just plain wrong (IMO). I
certainly wouldn't mind if 11.04 concentrated on fixing broken crap from
10.10 and offering Unity as an alternate. But to use 11.04 (a "LTS" btw)
as a testing ground for showcasing Unity as default? Give it a rest.

You see Alan, I'm used to Gnome2 and have gotten to the point that I'm
actually productive with a G2 desktop. Switching to Unity would (for me)
be like going from Win 3.1 to Win7 - or worse yet, going from G2 to OSX.
So maybe I'm just not 'modern' enough to appreciate all that Unity
brings. Perhaps if Unity allowed me to create/control a taskbar, or
simply use a mouse scroll wheel to look at all the exciting 99
applications instead of having to use a side bar, or tell me what one of
the 99 apps were by positioning my mouse over one (let's see I have
multiple versions of the same app installed - but can't tell which is
which as they all just list the title), or... I *might* consider
spending time with it. (how's that for a run on sentence?)

I can't help but wonder why Fedora & OpenSUSE dropped Unity:
<http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/fedora-and-opensuse-linux-drop-unity-interface-efforts-125>
<quote>
Ubuntu stands alone
Both developers did welcome the involvement of others interested in the
effort, and Marques said he'd look into it again later, "once there's an
official Compiz release from the branch that is required for Unity."

In the meantime, however, it looks like Natty Narwhal -- the final
version of which is expected to be released in late April -- will be the
only one with Unity enabled by default, at least for the near future.
</quote>

Or why Ubuntu didn't work with Gnome 3:
http://gnome3.org/
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/

> 
> 
>> I reckon that as soon as 11.04 is released the Ubuntu
>> user list & forums will be flooded with complaints.
>>
> 
> Bears have been known to defecate in wooded areas. This is not news.

No it's not. But I reckon that if we check the archives a year from now
the Ubuntu user list will have more posts/issues regarding Unity than
the past 6 releases.




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