[ubuntu-studio-devel] Anoying/confusing things in our DE

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

Panel location goes to personal taste. A  lot of people have slagged Unity
over the fact that the launcher bar cannot be moved to top or bottom. I
like my panel on the bottom, someone who started out on Macs will probably
prefer it on the top. No one location can please everyone.

Shutting off desktop icons by default would be enough of a problem for 
enough users to drive them to another distro. I still remember not switching
to the GTK 3 version of Nautilus until I desktop icons worked with it, and
that was a common beef against the original release of GNOME 3.0

On 11/16/2013 at 12:49 PM, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>As prep for getting the best experience for 14.04 I would like to 
>know 
>what people find anoying about our default desktop. What are the 
>first 
>things you change. Not everything you or I find anoying should be 
>changed 
>as we are trying not to confuse people new to UbuntuStudio as well.
>
>  -I like focus follows mouse. I have used things this way since I 
>began 
>using X with fvwm in the 90s. Probably won't get changed due to 
>all the 
>windows raised people around.
>  - default to possition all new windows in centre of the screen. 
>I would 
>prefer under mouse... well really I prefer new windows to end up 
>in clear 
>desktop space, but we don't seem to have that on xfce. Anyway, 
>centre of 
>screen means all the windows go on top of each other :P
>  - click and double click on the window title bar defaults to 
>full screen 
>or other action. The most common reason I click on the title bar 
>is to 
>move the window. I would prefer double click to do nothing. (the 
>first 
>thing to wear out of a mouse seems to be the left button resulting 
>in 
>unintended double clicks)
>  - scroll wheel on mouse changes workspace. This is really 
>confusing for 
>those who have yet to get btheir minds wrapped around more than 
>one 
>workspace. This mildly anoying for the rest of us (well me anyway) 
>as it 
>means that as soon as the mouse wanders off of the window I am 
>using the 
>scroll wheel for scrolling with, I get a blank screen or some 
>other app 
>and have to go and find what I was working on again. I think this 
>should 
>default to off.
>  - The bottom pannel....
>    a) the bottom (at least for me) is a bad place for this. Left 
>side. 
>Monitors are no longer 3x4, using a side for this instead of 
>bottom makes 
>more sense.
>    b) auto hide results in the application sharing the space the 
>pannel 
>takes as well as the whole bottom making it appear that the 
>application 
>being used no longer responding even though the mouse is not over 
>the 
>mouse itself. This may be fixable by making the pannel less than 
>100%
>    c) I find the icon size too big. this is subjective :)
>    d) Do we need this pannel at all?
>    e) I think we could pick better apps to populate it.
>
>  - The broken top pannel toys... these are being worked on... 
>probably not 
>a part of this discusion.
>
>  - Desktop icons... first thing I turn off, I fill my desktop 
>with apps 
>anyway, getting used to starting/opening things from the desktop 
>is not 
>efficient. Probably won't get changed for histerical reasons.
>
>  - clock format, and maybe app. We switched to Orage because the 
>clock 
>applet doesn't open a calendar when clicked. However, Orage is 
>more 
>difficult to set default time/date format. We should watch what 
>Xubuntu 
>does here.... it sounds like they are annoyed too :)
>
>Please comment on any of these and feel free to add your pet 
>peaves too... 
>even if they seem opposite to mine. I do know how to set my 
>desktop the 
>way I want it, but would prefer that the average and new person 
>gets the 
>best workflow without having to learn to set things up. SO please 
>think in 
>these terms. We really do want productivity first, and nice looks 
>right 
>after that.
>
>--
>Len Ovens
>www.ovenwerks.net
>
>
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