11.04

[Chris Robinson]

Unity 3D is OK to play with, but I hate it for any serious work.  I thought I 
might get to like it, but actually like it less now that I've been using it for 
a while.  The main problems are that there is no longer a task bar, which will 
force you to change the way you switch between applications, and the lack of (or 
broken functionality of) OO on the launcher.  The lack of configurability of the 
launcher is also a serious oversight.  


I've never liked launcher or application docks, and whenever I've tried them 
they never lasted more than a few hours or a day on my system.  Unity is 
launcher based supplemented with a clumsy panel.  I think this is a step 
backwards for Ubuntu.

Note that if you can't run Unity 3D because of graphics card issues, Unity 2D 
has a serious bug which may eat your memory: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/723956
If you look at the bug report, you'll see that I managed to get the memory usage 
of module unity-2d-places up to 540 Mb (30Mb nominal usage) quite easily.  The 
temporary fix is to end the module unity-2d-places so that the memory gets 
released back to the pool.  The module will re-load when you open the panel 
again.

My advice would be to stay with 10.04 LTS or 10.10 whichever you prefer, at 
least for a few months after 11.04 release, or stay with the classic Gnome 
interface.  Hopefully Unity will be more functional by the release of 11.10, 
because the classic interface will not ship with that release.

There's going to be a lot of squarking about Unity when 11.04 is released and 
I'm not sure I like the direction it's going.  Mark Shuttleworth seems quite 
pleased with it however.

Chris.





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From: IKT <noname420 at gmail.com>
To: Ubuntu AU List <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thu, 7 April, 2011 11:43:15 PM
Subject: 11.04

Heya,

Has anyone been mucking around with 11.04?

What do you think of it so far?

- ikt
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