Why do you use Unity?

[Adrienn Hunter]

I always removed the bottom panel, because the screen looked liked a 
cage for me, and I'm a pixel-fanatic (every little line of pixels 
counts, especially on the 1366x768 notebook screen). Instead of the 
bottom panel I used Docky on the side of the screen. I also don't like 
menubars that can't autohide, just waste of space (I prefer keyboard 
hotkeys, etc.).

With Unity Canonical almost did the same layout, so I switched because I 
find the unity panel better than the gnome-panel, and docky always 
annoyed me for some reason (slowed down boot, used a lot of performance 
sometimes, but it was the best for from docks I tried). Unity also made 
me realize how Desktop Wall is better than Cube for my work-flow. Many 
can argue, but Unity looks and feels clean and professional to me.

I can see the potential in Unity. The only thing I miss at the moment is 
the ability to change the launcher alpha/opacity but as far as I know 
it's on its way.

On 2011-06-25 02:06, Ramón Rocha wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> There's a good discussion going on initiated by Sebastian but I wanted 
> to start a separate thread asking why you, as a power user, use Unity? 
>  I am curious, what made you say: "This is better than the way it was 
> before".  Was it the way it looked?  Some particular feature?  If you 
> don't use Unity, why not?
>
> Personally, I still use the Classic Desktop because I feel I don't 
> have any of the problems Unity aims to solve.  Also, I use easystroke 
> and multiple monitors and Unity was not very compatible with my 
> existing way of doing things.  To me, it wasn't better...just 
> different (like when the window buttons were moved) so why change my 
> habits?
>
> So how about you?  I think this might help us organize our thoughts 
> and what we want from this group.  It is not my intention to start 
> a flame-war so let's be respectful to each other.  Cheers.
>
> -Ramón
>
>

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