<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 December 2011 23:36, Paul Tansom <<a href="mailto:paul@aptanet.com">paul@aptanet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> ** Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@canonical.com">alan@canonical.com</a>> [2011-12-02 11:03]: > On 01/12/11 23:52, <a href="mailto:thegeeksquadron@ymail.com">thegeeksquadron@ymail.com</a> wrote: > >Is Ubuntu going in the wrong direction? > > I personally don't believe so, no. I personally think it's going in > exactly the _right_ direction, but some people seem obsessed by > yesterday, today and tomorrow and not next year or next decade. I agree, I think in the longer term this will probably be good. I certainly prefer Unity to Gnome Shell (with the proviso that this is based on reading about both, but only having used Unity so far!). My main gripe is that it has been rushed out as the primary desktop when it is so painfully unfinished. Things I want to do just aren't easy yet and force me to the command line and Google (this feels very last millenium Linux!), and some of the changes I'm not keen on I could easily adjust if there were configuration options for them. A few examples: </blockquote></div> You can use the Ubuntu Unity Plugin options in CompizConfig Settings Manager to alter how the Launcher hides/reveals. You will probably have to install CompizConfig Settings Manager. Its not installed by default as far as I know, and I think that is because it is dangerous to change some of the other features with Unity running. There is also a GUI being developed for creating .desktop files as used in the Launcher, etc, For now, there is some stuff around, particularly on AskUbuntu, which describes how they are put together. Tony