Upgrading to 11.04 - Desktop

[Liam Proven]

On 1 May 2011 11:33, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
> On 30/04/2011 16:46, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>>
>> Well, I decided to upgrade a test machine to 11.04 to see what all the
>> fuss was about with unity and fell at the first hurdle. Using Update
>> Manager it produced a message stating "Could not download release
>> notes". This is consistent across several machines, suggesting a faulty
>> URL somewhere.
>>
>> A second attempt with do-release-upgrade produced "Checking for a new
>> ubuntu release" and then nothing for more than the 15 minutes that my
>> patience lasted.
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts? (other than a fresh installation, please
>> :-))
>>
>> Peter HB
>>
> Thanks to all who responded - now running 11.04 (in Classic mode). I tried
> unity, but was not impressed by the absence of a Menu Bar in several
> applications, including VirtualBox, Firefox, TBird, VLC and others.
>
> In Firefox an image of the Menu Bar became visible when "Customise" was
> accessed, but that's all it was, an image with no functionality. It also
> disappeared again when the Customise dialogue was closed. It seems that the
> only way to check the version information is via Synaptic (or dpkg) and this
> is not as satisfactory as Help/About.

You did not explore for long enough or thoroughly enough!

The menu bar is still there, but it has moved. It is now in the top
panel, overlaid on top of the title bar. It is hidden until you move
the mouse over the top panel or press the Alt key to access the menus
using the keyboard.

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