Fwd:Ubuntu, please don't waste time on upgrading your flashy & silly themes, desktop-effects!

[Michael Hall]

Unity's unique features are either optional or automatic.  If you 
develop your app using Gtk or Qt, you will automatically get the global 
menu in Unity.  Having an XDG .desktop file will automatically allow 
your app to be placed on the Unity launcher and, you can optionally 
extend that with Unity Quicklists.  The Indicator API exists in both 
Unity and KDE.

If you have more questions about integrating your application with 
Unity, please take a look at http://unity.ubuntu.com/about/

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com


On 02/12/2012 11:39 PM, Life Monad wrote:
> Why,I did not choose Unity?
> I am a developer too.
> Desktop software design principle (Maybe you know)  , for end users,
> they hope every software has similar appearance, .aka. UX..... Similar
> menu layout,keyshortcuts,status bar,notification
> area.....especially,settings panel.
>
> Why not improve GNOME if you think it sucks?
> (OK..,why not improve Unity if I think it sucks...because I won't waste
> time on it,I think Unity have no significant for end users.They want bug
> fixes and  new useful features & softwares adding eagerly , not another
> desktop env.)
>
> BTW:You can  image, while user works,he open a new window,...desktop
>   disappears.
>
> In spare time ,I want to  develop some useful tiny programs which /other
> platform provided but ubuntu lack of/.(Wine? never  be a solution.You
> must know it.Forget Wine.Develop your own linux desktop software.)
>
> But when I see Unity,I am confused. Did I need test my program on Unity?
> These desktop env have different API &UX. Programs can't do a good
> seamless  integration with desktop env(also file managers such
> as Nautilus . K onqueror ).
>
> Hn...Ha... Why not  GNOME X.X? Great Unification.
>
> I am tired.
>
>
>
> 2012/2/13 Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:bilalakhtar at ubuntu.com>>
>
>     All decisions so far regarding Ubuntu's design and Unity have been
>     made by large groups of people, and every decision has been influenced
>     a lot by user testing and feedback. And yes, we've been listening to
>     our users. Every. Feedback. Counts. As Michael said, we ourselves are
>     users too.
>
>     We'd also be considering your opinions if they were constructive. Just
>     saying "OMG UNITY SUX IM MOVING TO <Insert a DE or distro here>.
>     PLEASE FIX UNITY" isn't going to help either side. We tend to ignore
>     such threads because of their vagueness.
>
>     Bilal Akhtar.
>
>
>      > On 02/12/2012 10:16 PM, scott wrote:
>      >>
>      >> On 02/12/2012 09:47 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>> Please keep in mind that everybody who makes Ubuntu is also an
>     Ubuntu
>      >>> user, and a large portion of Ubuntu's users are also involved in
>      >>> making it.
>      >>>
>      >>> Michael Hall
>      >>> mhall119 at ubuntu.com <mailto:mhall119 at ubuntu.com>
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >> You can't tell by all the backlash against Unity, at the least.
>      >>
>      >> Scott
>      >>
>
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