Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Rashkae]

On 06/06/2012 07:08 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> It is very poorly /discoverable/ but actually once you've discovered
> it, it makes little difference to /usability./
>
> Seriously. You only need to know where they are. It makes /no/
> difference /at all/ to how you actually access them.
>

It makes a big difference.  The theory of putting controls (such as 
menus) on the screen edge is that the mouse target size becomes infinite 
in the direction of the screen edge.  Users can then access those menus 
measurably faster since less time is spent aiming the mouse pointer.  I 
somehow doubt that efficiency increase still applies when you have to 
unhide the menu before you can even aim for it.
>
> I am a compulsive multi-tasker with multiple apps on multiple
> desktops. I find a taskbar that does not show me all my apps, no
> matter which desktop they're on, utterly unusable.
>
> No, seriously, I mean it. I merely throw this in to show you how one
> person's mileage varies. I can't stand to use a system which requires
> me to memorise which desktop an app is on, or hunt through them all
> for my app. I *need* them all in my task switcher - that is what it is
> *for*, after all - and the *OS* to remember which app is on which
> desktop and switch to the one I need.
>

That's fair enough. I'm not quite arrogant enough to imply that my 
preferred way of working on the pc is the best for everyone.  (Close, 
but not quite.).  At the end of the day, that's the difference between 
me view and the view of Unity (and Gnome-shell) management teams.

>
> That's fine. It's clearly not the desktop for you (or, if you will
> forgive me a little teasing, you are not flexible enough to adapt to
> it!)
>
> May I suggest that you write up what desktop you *do* choose, and why,
> and blog it and promote it so others can benefit from your
> discoveries? And if you migrate to another *buntu or something, that
> you then help out that project

My blog has long been discontinued as it only turns into an empty 
wasteland with no updates when I get distracted by other shinies.  For 
those reading who are curious, after trying several options on 12.04. 
I'm very happy with Gnome Classic + Compiz + AWN.  Ubuntu has the 
options for such a desktop actually very nicely configured.  (It's a 
nightmare to set up on Debian, by comparison.)