Unity Interface in 10.10 Netbook Edition

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2010 10:20:43 pm Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com>
> wrote:
> (...)
>> I recently tried the Live DVD of the Ultimate
>> Edition equivalent of Maverick and found the visual experience
>> painful. I'm sure that some people love it; it's all a question of
>> different tastes. I don't like the Ubuntu colors (and am not
>> interested in spending time customizing my desktop) so I've tried
>> Mint.
>
> Of course it's a question of taste. But change the distro because you don't
> want to spend time customizing the desktop..... ;)
>
> I can't imagine that going to "Appearance", selecting something
> like "Ambiance" and changing the background would take more time than
> installing Mint (which surely is a fine distribution).
>
> By the way, _if_ you spend time to explore gconf-editor, you will be surprised
> to find out what Gnome can do (but the Gnome people don'twant noobs to know
> about, it seems). For example, I found out that you can just kill your
> touchpad there, great! (I happen to hate touchpads, but there again it's all
> a question of taste).

You missed my main point. I don't want to use "Appearance" or
"gconf-editor" to any extent.

I used to use FluxBox and used to tweak every little thing there. I've
done the same, to a lesser degree, with GNOME. A year ago I used to go
as far as editing the grub2 scripts but I've reached the stage where I
no longer care. I work twelve hours a day on Solaris and RHEL from a
Windows box where, for all intents and purposes, I can't customize
anything because it's locked down; so I've decided to work within
these constraints at home. The only customizing that I do is remove
the home and volumes directories from the desktop (if they're there)
with gconftool-2, and add gnome-terminal to the panel. That's it. So I
can install any distribution on my non-Mac laptop regularly without it
taking up much time. From a look and feel perspective, Fedora's
color-scheme is my favorite but setting up Fedora can be more
time-consuming because of its no-proprietary-bits philosophy.