Brief thoughts on Unity

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 20:19 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:

> Having persevered with Unity I am now OK with it, although I do have a
> few issue with it. 
> 
> There is quite a bit of configuration that you can do, and there are
> lots of keyboard short cuts which make for slick operating.
> Unfortunately, it is not well documented yet, but there are discussions
> about how to tackle that problem.
> 
> Here are some links that may help you to understand Unity better,

Regardless of the "how to's" and "FAQ's" and shortcuts and this and that
and yadda yadda yadda, it's a shiite interface, non-intuitive, NOT
oriented for "Desktop multitasking"...so it doesn't matter. It was MEANT
FOR A NETBOOK and looks like a mobile phone interface. They can document
the daylights out of it and give the buttons more sparkle and yadda
yadda yadda, it's still going to be crap. You can put as many strings of
pearls on a pig as you want, but it's still a bloody pig, end of story.

I can only sum up that both Unity and Gnome-Shell are insults that have
been thrown at experienced desktop-linux users; they're insults to the
intelligence and competency of those of us that have been around long
enough, and more than proof in the putting that the "higher ups" and
developers could care less about those of us "in the trenches".

MY $0.20 AUD (which is about, um, what, $0.30 USD now?) ;)
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