[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

[Jonathon Fernyhough]

On 18 August 2010 09:57, Gordon Allott <gord.allott at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:07 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>> Maverick Meerkat. Advert tie-in. Simples. Was any new ground broken? I
>> can't really think of any, indicator was introduced in Lucid. Oh wait,
>> the window button positions. That's ground-breaking, obviously.
>
> Erm, maverick hasn't been released yet, the window buttons were changed
> in lucid, new ground? plenty. have you not been paying attention to all
> the new indicator work? global menus? unity? shotwell? a flutter with
> chromium, then chromium promoted to main? new sound menu? multi-touch?
>
> please, facts straight

Missed the giant /s tag too... I've got to start putting that in.
However, we have reached feature freeze, so (in theory) there's
nothing new coming over the system I'm running now. I'll reiterate,
too, that I love Ubuntu and have been running it since Breezy and as
my main OS since Feisty; look on this as a "critical friend".

> the window buttons were changed in lucid

Crikey.

> the new indicator work?

The feature was introduced in Lucid, hence ground was broken then.
This is refinement - a good thing - but not ground breaking.

> global menus?

Started in 2006 (IIRC) by someone who was at the time shouted down by
some people for trying to mimic Mac OS. Targeted at netbooks, but I'll
have another look as it sounds interesting. Doesn't seem to do a lot
for me at the moment though (just get "Desktop", "Desktop menus will
go here"). I'm not sure why "application-based mode" hasn't been
extended, unless by "currently unimplemented" they mean "completely
absent in every way".

> unity?

Netbook stuff, so I haven't looked at it. :)

> shotwell? a flutter with chromium, then chromium promoted to main?

Those are two applications I had installed before inclusion. Fine,
though, most people wouldn't go looking for them - though how many of
those will install Chromium if it's not already there? Won't they just
use Firefox as its installed by default? (This is like saying, "we
install pitivi by default! It's ground-breaking!")

> new sound menu?

Extension of indicator, but yes it is pretty.

> multi-touch

Now we're talking. This is the USP. Limited value on most computers
but it's a heck of a nice feature to have included. I can't wait for
my touchpad to actually work correctly!

Jonathon