Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Ryan Gauger]

On 06/06/2012 10:23 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 6 June 2012 16:12, Albert Wagner<albertwagner at cox.net>  wrote:
>> On 06/06/2012 08:08 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> No, they aren't. They are there to save screen space, mainly. "Advance" is
>>> very much a subjective judgement call.
>> Any screen space so saved is negligible and is not desired by many users of
>> desktop machines.
> Speak for yourself. I am typing in Unity on a 3200*1200 desktop myself
> right now.
>
>> The price of large monitors is continually dropping.  I
>> use a 27" 1920x1080 monitor.  I am contemptuous of the types of "screen
>> saving" in Unity.
> Personal value judgement. Up to you, sure, but not generally applicable.
>
>>     Perhaps lovers of Unity should always qualify their
>> remarks to indicate either desktops or handheld devices.
> I don't love it. I don't love any OS. All OSs have strengths and flaws.
>
> I happen to like Unity more than GNOME 2 overall, but there are some
> things better in GNOME 2, some better in GNOME Shell, some in Windows,
> some in MacOS and Mac OS X, some in Acorn RISC OS, some in Psion EPOC.
>
> Nothing's perfect.
+1, I agree. Windows, Mac OS X, all of them do.
>
>> What is
>> appropriate for one is often not appropriate for another.
> Of course, yes, but it is an error - albeit a common one - to assume
> that one's own preferences are some sort of universal law.
>
>> I understand your being offended.  I also am offended by people who adopt a
>> religious attitude toward software such as Unity, as you do.
> Hey, it's nothing to do with me. I am just another user. I had no hand
> in it and never will.
>
>>   You, and Unity
>> developers, would do well to listen, with an open mind, to those preferring
>> other desktops.
> I do. But, why should I? It's nothing to do with me. I am just tired
> of Unity-bashing and occasionally intercede to point out errors in
> things that the Unity-bashers say.
>
> Myself, for example, I don't like and don't use the Dash. I preferred
> menus. Now, when I can't start apps from the Launcher, I tend to start
> them from a terminal - I find it easier than Ubuntu's full-screen
> app-browser thing, which just irritates me.
>
>>   It would have been infinitely more preferable that such
>> listening were done BEFORE the decision to make radical changes.
> Ubuntu is not a democracy; nor is Linux.
>
> Mark Shuttleworth is paying and what he says, goes.
>
> We don't pay for it, so we don't get any say.
>