[ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

[Colin Law]

On 21 February 2013 21:21, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If it is specifically LibreOffice that you had the problem with then
there have been problems in 12.10 see [1] and possibly others.
Perhaps LO 4 (or other stuff in Raring) has fixed them.

Colin

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184