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Le 28/12/2011 20:40, Nenad Lecek a écrit :
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<small>Hi,</small><br>
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<div>as I don't know where to put my comments about Ubuntu 11.10
usability, I'm posting here. My apologies if this is not the
right place, and I'd be grateful if you point me where to post
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<small>Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience about Unity,
seems quite a lot got discussed already on the list with other
replies so I will just give some extra informations</small><br>
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<div>IMHO, the Unity is unnecessary, harmful step in wrong
direction. The Unity doesn't help to make user interface more
intuitive. Even worse, it is not solely the issue of quality
of implementation, the Unity design doesn't have potential to
serve the user well. My recommendation is to make the Unity
optional and certainly not default user interface for Ubuntu.
Gnome Classic Ubuntu desktop really fits much, much better.<br>
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<small>That's your opinion and a valid one but not one that
everybody out there share. User testing on different groups of
people, including non technical ones, indicated that unity is
seeing as a step forward and a better interface that the old gnome
"classic" by most users. They find it better looking and easier to
use.</small> <br>
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Now keep into account that unity is new, many of the flaws you
list and other usability issues are known and will be worked, it
just didn't happen yet.</small><br>
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<div>1) Appearing/disappearing left side toolbar doesn't bring
anything compared to Gnome Classic Ubuntu desktop and menu.
Why? </div>
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<small>The next version of unity will have an option for not hiding
the launcher (the left bar), if you don't like the
appearing,disappearing you will be able to easily change it.<br>
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<div>Simply put if you know that you have couple of menus where
you programs are, this is much better/faster than unnecessary
dynamic/uncertainty which Unity provides. BTW, Classic gnome
desktop we had in previous Ubuntu versions was really well
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<small>The menus were never "well structured" no, <br>
- categories are not obvious for most people (what is the
difference between accessories, system tools in the application
menu and the system menus? where is the "take a screenshot"?)<br>
- the menus had too many items making it hard to find for what you
want<br>
- if you like categories you still have similar categories as
filters in unity</small><br>
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<div>Personally, I do not see the point of promoting Unity as
the only desktop on Ubuntu, because classic gnome desktop was
well structured and good enough. Eventually, only search
capability like in Unity could have been added, although this
functionality in Unity is far from good, currently is just
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<div>2) The application menu is shown in main menu toolbar. This
is annoying at best, and from usability point of view very it
is a really poor choice. <br>
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<small>That's a known issue and people are looking at addressing it.
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Note that it's only an issue for people who use the menus a lot,
in most applications the toolbar icons should be enough for most
actions. Look at somebody using firefox and how much they use the
menus for example. That's not to dismiss the fact that it is an
issue for some users, it's just not one for everybody</small><br>
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<div>3) Performance consideration: seems so that Unity eats
performance and batteries on laptops. Again, no value in
service it provides in return.<br>
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<small>That's a known issues and high on the list of things to
address this cycle<br>
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<div>4) Search applications capability in Unity is really poorly
designed and of limited usage. In some cases, you almost have
to know exact name so that application you are searching for
could be found. In others searching application itself has
confusing, complex user interface. This could have been done
much better.<br>
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<small><small>Suggestions on how to improve are welcome.</small> The
search capability is not "really poorly designed", it's rather
than applications don't provide a lot of things to search for out
of the menu title and description. The search feature does support
keywords though and there are plans to increase their use starting
this cycle, that should improve things quite a bit if most common
applications define a solid set of keywords.</small><br>
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<div>Simplicity in user design, down-to-earth logic could guide
designers to much better user experience with Ubuntu. <br>
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<small>You should like unity then, its "simplicity" is somebody most
people who dislike it complain about ;-)</small><br>
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Sebastien Bacher<br>
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