Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Ryan Gauger]

On 06/06/2012 05:39 PM, Rashkae 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.
I agree with you on this. However, the amount of time it takes to unhide 
menus is only 100 milliseconds by default. And besides that, you can use 
menus before they unhide themselves. Even though this may not be ideal, 
it is a whole lot faster than trying to point to them when they do not 
have infinite pointing space, as they are on Windows 7 and under, but 
Windows 8 has new buttons with right-click functionality, taking out 
menus for Metro apps. Also, menu fade-in/out can be changed/removed if 
not needed or wanted in CCSM.
>>
>> 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.)
>