Subject: Re: Congrats on 11.04

[Davyd McColl]

Just a small(-ish) note on the Unity vs GNOME thread running here...

I wholeheartedly support diversity in products/desktops/choice. So, whilst
I've tried Unity and personally it does not fit my requirements at all (it
just felt odd and, imo is better suited to wide-screen displays than my old
1280x1024 display), I wholeheartedly wish the devs working on Unity the best
-- and hope that Unity emerges as the desktop of choice for at least some
users.

On the other hand, I was dismayed, upon upgrading to 11.04 to find:
1) My personal choice of GNOME was stomped over with Unity. I had to change
this at the login screen. It's trivial, I know, but it violates the
principle of least surprise. I was using GNOME before the update -- I should
be using GNOME after *unless* I choose to switch.
2) Desktop effects for GNOME are now well broken. I thought at first that it
was just my upgrade (which was as rough as the last few Ubuntu upgrades have
been -- not wholly heart-warming, leaving me with, for example, a broken
GRUB which I had to rescue via a live boot and chroot; something Grandma
most likely couldn't do), but a clean install shows the same problems (and,
of course, I have the proprietary NVIDIA drivers loaded in both instances:
glxinfo reports the correct vendor and glxgears flies):
a) the option to enable desktop effects is gone from the appearance config
dialog, but I'm assuming this is replaced by the choice at login of with or
without effects
b) installing ccsm and turning on my old desktop effects (just cube and, of
course, rotate cube) resulted in no window borders. gtk-window-decorator
hangs at startup. Emerald crashes. I don't even know where to start with
reporting this. Indeed, I would love any suggestion as to where to report
this so that someone with more time (and probably more smarts) than me can
have a look at it.

-d

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