[CoLoCo] Interesting review of 9.10

[Michael Haney]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=1381
>
> Most especially:
>
> "One small problem with 9.10 that irks me more than anything else is
> the recent change of the mouse properties. In all previous versions of
> Ubuntu, you could disable the touchpad on your laptop. In 9.10, the
> developers thought it would be an awesome idea to remove any way of
> disabling the touchpad. Due to this reason alone, my wife may move
> backwards to 9.04 because her netbook has a really annoying touchpad.
> Removing the way of disabling the touchpad was a VERY stupid idea and
> whoever thought it up should be ashamed of themselves, and/or
> reprimanded."
>
> But then, Ubuntu is not alone. An OpenSUSE user is also lamenting
> removal of features.
>
> http://www.itworld.com/open-source/96436/lamenting-death-features
>

I'm more irked by how you can't change your monitor settings from
within X.org using the Screen Resolution app anymore.  That's been
gone for a while, and its a pain to have to manually edit xorg.conf
every time I install a new version of Ubuntu.

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