[ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

[Gareth France]

On 21/02/13 21:19, Colin Law wrote:
> On 21 February 2013 17:41, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21/02/13 17:37, Barry Drake wrote:
>>> On 21/02/13 17:28, Gareth France wrote:
>>>> That's really funny. You've just given the exact same argument I do,
>>>> except I'm saying windows are trading usability and unity is a better
>>>> experience. I really don't see the problem with it.
>>>
>>> Curiously, last week I put Mint on a spare partition just to take a look.
>>> I found I was not enjoying the experience!  It was only on reflection that I
>>> realised I was missing the easy Unity experience too much!  I find Unity
>>> very usable on PC and netbook (no touch) and everything else feels, well,
>>> just old fashioned.
>>>
>>> Regards,        Barry.
>>>
>> I can't say I love everything about it. Window switching works against me
>> (multiple windows of the same program grouped together) and I can't use
>> keyboard shortcuts like ALT+F any more. I used to use the keyboard to
>> navigate menus a lot and I'm finding I'm just not using the HUD or getting
>> used to those changes at all. But on the whole I do find it to be a fluid
>> experience that I just get on with and I've actually never felt the need to
>> stray from unity, even in it's early days.
> The keyboard shortcuts should still work, can you give a specific
> example that does not work?
>
> Colin
>
Correction. They did not work in 12.10 but appear to now be working in 
13.04. Possibly a quirk of my install that got fixed with the upgrade. I 
never complained about it because I thought that might be the case anyway.