[CoLoCo] Unity decision: (Fwd) Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

[Andrew Barilla]

I can understand them pushing it live.  It's mostly usable after the past
couple days updates (compiz was crashing every 5-15 minutes for me).
 However, I think they should tweek the fallback to look like Gnome in
Maverick.  I.E: Remove the global menu thing and add the standard Gnome menu
back.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:19 AM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com>wrote:

> Interesting ...  I had suspicions that the groans in the community would be
> heard and Unity might be delayed...  That being said, I'm all for just
> pushing it live.  At the worst, I'll personally stick with 10.10 until Unity
> works as I need it to.  But hey- that's just me.  :)
>
> -David
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>wrote:
>
>> If folks want to weigh in on the final decision, here's your chance.
>>
>> Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/
>>
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>> From: Rick Spencer <rick.spencer at canonical.com>
>> Subject: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04
>> Organization: Canonical
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Back at UDS for 11.04 in Orlando, Mark set the goal of using Unity by
>> default on the Ubutu desktop. Given the current course of development,
>> it appears that we are going to achieve this goal, and Unity will stay
>> the default for 11.04.
>>
>> I'm following up on this list at the suggestion of the Tech Board to
>> give folks a chance to respond or escelate any concerns.
>>
>> Note that there are some arguments for changing the default from Unity
>> to "classic' GNOME:
>> 1. There are key feature regressions, for example, there is no systray
>> support for many important applications.
>> 2. There are usability problems, for example, settings are hard to find,
>> the launcher icons behave differently when you click on the trash can
>> versus the home folder launcher, it's hard to find a categorized view of
>> applications, searches do not always turn up expected results.
>> 3. We are coming in too hot, there are too many crashers on some
>> hardware and the final product will be buggy.
>>
>> I won't rebut these points myself, as I am rather striving to represent
>> the viewpoints not argue against them.
>>
>> Representing the desktop team, Jason Warner believes that Unity will
>> deliver the superior experience for most users in 11.04. I agree with
>> this position and support staying the course.
>>
>> Cheers, Rick
>>
>> PS - You can reference the recent and current bug fixing efforts of the
>> Unity team here:
>> https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/3.8.4
>> https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/3.8.6
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity
>>
>>
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