Explain to me again why Unity is so great...

[Steven Susbauer]

On 4/22/11 5:12 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> Having used Unity all cycle with multiple monitors and apps I find
>> this feedback surprising. I was going to go point by point addressing
>> how multitasking works in Unity, but instead I made a video of how I
>> use it to highlight my points. If anything to me Unity feels like
>> GNOME 2.x multitasking on steroids:
>>
>> Web: http://castrojo.blip.tv/file/4997614/
>> Download: http://blip.tv/file/get/Castrojo-HowIMultitaskInUnity835.ogv
> 
> Worth downloading to view at will, but it's 34.5MB so make sure you have
> the bandwidth connection before attempting the downlad.


That's pretty interesting. His Unity workflow is more or less exactly
how my workflow has been when using Mac OS X for years, including the
left hand "dock" and "Exposé" for application windows. I guess it's not
too hard to figure out the design inspiration, and not too surprising,
it's been mentioned that Ubuntu designers were using Macs at least for
10.04, because Ubuntu was unfamiliar[1].

I happen to like the Mac interface, so I guess I don't really have room
to continue to complain about Unity, but I've always appreciated the
classic look when I use Linux.

[1]
http://jordanopensource.org/freeplanet/article/new-ubuntu-design-created-apple-mac

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