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I am not sure if this is the right forum but since this topic has
been touched I wanted to know how well the unity interface has been
received. I see a lot of posts on returning to the classic gnome. It
appears that there are just too many people out there missing the
classic features.<br>
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Basic things like Alt Tab behave very differently killing the
purpose of virtual desktops (grouping as you roll through all the
windows) and grouping of similar windows again is a problem as I
would have a particular type of application (say Thunderbird) on the
same Desktop. I can't wait for Alt Tab expand - the older method was
so much simpler and faster. Any particular reason to change it? I
can't customize any of the panels - can't add shortcuts to panels,
resize them, add panels, etc. The worst part is a lot of these
things I am not even able to revert back to. Why is the new
interface so rigid?<br>
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I am myself moving to StumpWM now to make things easier for myself -
at least predictable at a much better performance. A colleague is
even contemplating creating a light weight desktop based on StumpWM
with basic things in place as it is so much faster. Haven't tried
xmonad yet. At least StumpWM gives a good mix of using mouse and
keyboard. But for my newbie friends I was hoping the current
interface was simpler or behaved like the conventional desktop.<br>
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On 12/01/2011 08:32 AM, Ray Perigo wrote:
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cite="mid:CAK-_fqGsBHBWwENydmy-m4=5pmgcwOLbtGQn-Wt1v+hj+rRFdg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">There seems to be much griping going about regarding
Unity, in particular the lack of a "classic" menu - admittedly,
I'm one of those gripers. I see no reason why a simple
applications (a-la GNOME 2.x) menu can't be added as a right-click
function on the Dash button. This sort of menu is a must-have for
a lot of users, and this sort of implementation would allow it to
coexist peacefully with the Dash/Lenses.
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