Ubuntu loosing its popularity

[Art Edwards]

On 11/30/2011 02:25 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 04:05 PM, Art Edwards wrote:
>> On 11/30/2011 11:24 AM, J wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:36, Art Edwards
>>> <edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:
>>>> Interesting that you brought up push button drive. That ended up being a
>>>> gimmick that was dropped a few years later by all the major auto makers.
>>>> I had a 1963 Dodge Dart with push button drive. Not a great innovation,
>>>> really. IMHO, either is the dock in Unity.
>>> Only because the shifter on the stalk and in the console were "more
>>> familiar" and not as strange.  However, if you notice today's vehicles
>>> are slowly coming back to push button drive.
>>>
>>> There's been push-button AWD/4WD for some time now, and high end and
>>> even some lower end cars are coming with push-button or spinny-knob
>>> automatic transmissions.
>>>
>>> So really, if you're saying that Unity is the Push Button Automatic,
>>> well, then it will eventually become accepted.
>>>
>> AWD/4WD is a niche. In that sense Unity will probably be accepted. 
>> If I were to guess the non-4WD transmision variations are a marketing
>> gimmick. It's something new without any increase functionality.  So,
>> in that sense, it's better than Unity--Unity reduces functionality,
>> or makes the functionality more clumsy.
>>
>> I do think that the idea of being accepted /eventually/ is telling.
>> Important innovations are readily accepted. Cell phones, laptops, USB
>> drives, as examples, needed no persuasion. Even things like tablets
>> and smart phones have been immediate successes. Their utility was
>> obvious. When you have to have arguments with your users about the
>> utility of something, you should listen to it. That is not the sound
>> of brilliant innovation. When you see surveys like the one at the top
>> of this thread, it should tell you something. When Linus Torvalds
>> calls Gnome 3 'an unholy mess' in a g+ thread attended by major
>> developers who agree, the abandonment of a great interface should be
>> rethought. As I have stated, now that I have Xfce working well, this
>> is more of an academic conversation. I'm guessing that Xfce will be
>> the new gnome.
>>
>> Art Edwards
>>
>>
> I have never tried Xfce before and installed about an hour ago. So far
> I like it!  I have my 6 desktops that I like so much. It's familiar
> and handsome and the colors are soothing and nice.   How do you try
> Thunar, I haven't look at that yet?     Doug
Thunar is simply the default file manager. If you open a terminal and type

thunar

You will see it and be in your home directory. If you want to look like
gnome, xfce has a /Places/ applet for the Xfce panel. If you click any
of the directories under /Places, /you will get a thunar window. There
is also an /Applications/ applet. System is subsumed under /Applications. /

HTH

Art Edwards
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