[ubuntu-uk] Annoyances In Ubuntu

[Rob Beard]

Darren.Mansell at opengi.co.uk wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Best bet is to report some bugs about this sort of thing. I've already 
reported a couple of bugs about Wubi, with developers being based all 
around the world, sometimes e-mailing a localised mailing list might get 
missed.

Personally I found that I couldn't get on with KDE 4 and thought it was 
a step backwards, granted I haven't tried it on Kubuntu 9.10, I will 
probably give it a shot in VirtualBox this weekend.

I guess some of it is what you're used to. I've been playing around with 
Windows 7 over the past 2 days on the wife's PC and some things seem 
alien to me, but then I guess to someone who has been using Windows 7 
full time since the RC release it probably seems normal.

Rob