Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Liam Proven]

On 6 June 2012 23:39, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> 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.

You don't have to. You whack the mouse up to the top edge and there
you are, menu. No more vertical movement is needed, just horizontal.
It makes /no difference at all/ whether the menu is there permanently
or not; by the time the mouse hits the top of the screen, it is there.

The movements are *absolutely identical*.

This is in contrast to the last GUI OS I used with a hidden menu bar
at the top of the screen - classic AmigaOS and its relatives. (The
last variant I actually played with, last year, was MorphOS on my Mac
mini G4.)

On this family of GUIs, you have to first whack the mouse up to the
top of the screen *and then* press *and hold down* the right mouse
button to get the menu bar to unhide.

I find it completely horrible, a usability and ergonomic disaster.

But then, former Amiga users who first learned to use a GUI on Amigas
(as I learned it on Acorn Archimedes running RISC OS 2) find it the
best system, love it and bemoan that other OSs cannot do it.

People can get used to pretty much /anything./

>> 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.

[Sad smile] Point.

>> 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.)

Gosh. That seems like a very complex, hacky solution. O_o

I believe Fallback Mode has already been removed from GNOME 3.4, which
uses a technology called LLVMpipe to render OpenGL on the main CPU.
Your solution will not be around for long.

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