[ubuntu-uk] Annoyances In Ubuntu

[Darren.Mansell at opengi.co.uk]

I normally use KDE 4.3 on Kubuntu Karmic and this morning I was looking
at something in gnome so just did a dpkg-reconfigure gdm, chose gdm as
the default DM then sudo stop kdm && sudo start gdm to run Gnome in all
its glory.

 

It hasn't taken me long at all to realise why I dislike Gnome and/or
Ubuntu's implementation of it in Karmic and I had to make a list of what
has annoyed me in the relatively short space of time I've used it:

 

Ubuntu Software Centre - Software won't install behind proxy, even
though have proxy set in Gnome preferences and Synaptic. Also the
colouring in Departments looks really nasty. Add/Remove Software used to
have popularity ratings that were really useful, not there anymore.

Preferences > Network Proxy - Click Apply System-Wide asks for
authentication but focus does not transfer to Authenticate dialog.
Dialog will not allow other windows to overlap.

Login screen - Click unlock to make changes, again Authenticate box pops
up even though I authenticated 20s ago in Network Proxy and focus is
again incorrect. Wait 20s to put password in and Unlock doesn't work,
have to click the button again where it does unlock without password.

Users and groups - No unlock button but there is a key picture next to
'click to make changes'. Click it and incorrectly focussed Authenticate
dialog pops up again. Check my user privileges and apparently I can't
connect to wireless and ethernet networks, use audio devices, video
devices or VirtualBox. All of which I'm currently doing.

Desktop - To change the current theme I right-click on the desktop and
choose Change Desktop Background. Shouldn't this be called Appearance
like the shortcut in the Preferences menu?

Panel - Can't right click on menu items in Places that I can right click
in Nautilus. I need to unmount stuff sometimes so I have to click
Places, Computer, then I can right click on the exact same things to
unmount them that are in the Places menu.

Firefox - When Firefox starts and has mod updates there are 2 options,
install updates or install. It's pot luck as to which of these actually
installs the waiting updates and not pops up a file browser dialog to
choose new updates to install.

Run Application - Alt-F2 run dialog is case-sensitive so typing
virtualbox doesn't bring VirtualBox up.

 

I thought stuff like this had been ironed out with 100 papercuts? To me
Ubuntu with Gnome seems quite incoherent, something Kubuntu doesn't seem
to suffer with.

 

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