From IRC and a NEW USER: "Ubuntu is so horrible to try and use..."

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:46 +0200, Mark Widdicombe wrote:
> 
> On 14 June 2011 10:33, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 03:46 -0400, Danyelle Davis wrote:
>         
>         Huh, since I'm a chicken and still running 10.4, I'm wondering
>         what the
>         KDE folks have improved since? The one thing that Gnome lacks,
>         without
>         running Compiz, is the ability to just move my mouse pointer
>         to the
>         screen edge and pop magically into the adjoining workspace,
>         without some
>         key combination or incantation. Gnome makes me crazy without
>         it, so I
>         don't use it. If Unity lacks that feature, I'll be just
>         staying with
>         KDE. :) Ric 
>  
> In gnome:-
> System --> Preferences --> CompizConfig Settings Manager --> Rotate
> Cube.  Then select Edge Flip Pointer.
> 
> No magic required.

Right, but if you're also running another 3D application or OpenGl game,
you wind up turning Compiz off. I don't have to do that with KDE. Of
course I don't have the rotating cube effect, but I'll live. If you
could have that edge-flip-pointer effect in Gnome, without running
compiz, that would really be a winner. Just a 2D slide into the next
workspace. Plus, with KDE I can stack my workspaces so I have 3 across,
2 deep for a total of 6 workspaces that I can mouse slide into and
around. 

Now, with dual monitors I have 12 workspaces and can still do that mouse
slide through all of them. I absolutely love that. I'm as happy as a
little clam. :) Ric

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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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