Ubuntu loosing its popularity

[Douglas Pollard]

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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20111130/b43e2493/attachment.html>