Ubuntu with Unity versus Kubuntu with KDE
Cybe R. Wizard
cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Tue Mar 8 06:18:01 UTC 2011
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:40:50 +1100
Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I've been following the initial comments (cons and the
> rebuttals/excuses for it) about Unity for Ubuntu and now have a
> question to those who have used/using KDE and Unity.
>
> I left opensuse a couple of years ago because of KDE (with its
> plasmas, widgets.....) and and went Ubuntu with gnome.
>
> Now that Unity has raised its head in Ubuntu I was wondering how much
> of a difference there is between Kubuntu (KDE) and Ubuntu with Unity?
>
> In fact, what's the future of Kubuntu when Unity matures?
>
> BC
>
If you haven't given the new interfaces a look, you'll find that they
(Unity, GNOME-shell, GNOME 3) all copy Apple's, "look, I can't read,
but I can operate a computer," paradigm. The ideas of giving all
programs the same title bar (OK, it changes with focus) and making
every menu choice an icon instead of text is just brain-dead if you
ask me. OTOH, I can read well. I suppose that if I were half educated
and half competent I would also welcome the dumbing down of all
interfaces.
I really, really don't want to scroll through three or four pages of
icons to find that which would be on the first page of a text menu, no
matter how cool the Ipad might be.
Don't let's even talk about the idea of full screen defaults for all
programs.
Cybe R. Wizard
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