[ubuntu-us-ut] Airing of grievances (was Meerkat Ditching 'aptitude')

[Christian Horne]

my biggest grievance with ubuntu is the same as gnome - removal of options.
sure, they're not targeting powerusers; but who is it gonna hurt to have a
dialog that allowed individual sounds to be assigned? kde - and to some
extent kubuntu, though kubuntu seem to try to gnomeify kde - is far better
in this regard.
blendmaster1024



On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Sam Merrell <merrell.sam at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 15:37, Will Smith <undertakingyou at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> My current complaint is the seeming attitude that release dates and
>> following mainstream are more important that providing a usable system.
>> Three examples,
>> When 10.04 first come out no ati drivers at all. Even the FOSS
>> alternatives wouldn't work. The forum and bug report all seemed to say the
>> same thing. To bad, big bummer, so sad, oh well. It was a couple of months
>> before this would work.
>>
>
> That has been a concern of mine lately. Though I don't remember running
> into any ati issues using 10.04 on my T60p others I know had video driver
> issues on their machines.
>
> It used to but that notifications would pop up along the right side of the
>> screen. Each notification, about an inch tall, would tile down the screen.
>> Four notifications at once took up about four and a half inches, and would
>> pass based upon timeout. Now, with the changes made by ubuntu you have the
>> option of two notifications. The first, system notifications like network
>> changes, updates available, etc. The second, just below it, for other
>> notifications. Song track changing, someone talking to you in chat. These
>> must wait in order to be displayed. If you have four non-system
>> notifications only one shows at a time. In addition, you can not change how
>> long they do display. You are stuck. Such a change removes usability and
>> actually makes the system less usable.
>>
>>
> I like the idea they have with notifications but it indeed does have some
> big annoyances. I almost forgot about that :)
>
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