Unity Interface in 10.10 Netbook Edition

Tarun Khanna tarunkhanna at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 19:24:06 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>  Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 19:06 -0400, Tarun Khanna a écrit :
>
>  I had posted this earlier on the Ubuntu Users mailing list and it was
> suggested that I discuss it in the development list. Are these known issues
> and if so, are there any changes suggested for the next release?
>
> I have run into a few issues with the new Unity interface in the latest
> (10.10) Ubuntu Netbook Edition.
>
> 1. There is no easy way to move/copy files around. The file manager
> provided by Unity doesn't provide a right click context menu. The only way I
> could do file operations was by launching the terminal (which by itself was
> difficult to find). Then either do file operations on the command line in
> the terminal or launch nautilus from within the terminal. That seems to be
> the only way to launch Nautilus.
>
> 2. The desktop crashes often. Sometimes it restarts by itself, other times
> I have to go to a terminal and restart gdm. This generally happens after I
> exit xbmc or huludesktop running in fullscreen mode.
>
> 3. There is no run dialog. That is definitely the single biggest issue as I
> use the run dialog very often.
>
> 4. The desktop is pathetically slow. My hardware meets the recommended
> requirements.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
>
> Thanks for using UNE and testing Unity. All those points are carely
> taken into account by upstream and we work very closely to get a very
> nice and solid natty version on unity. One of the technical detail is
> to switch to another window manager.
>
> All your issue should be reported as bug reports on launchpad (
> http://launchpad.net). In this case, the 4 issues you mentioned are
> already reported. So no need to worry, it's on track :)
>
> Thanks,
> Didier
>

Thanks for taking care of this.

Thanks,
Tarun
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