Unity!

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 25 20:26:55 UTC 2012


On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:12:06 +0100
James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:32 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> > wrote: :
> >>
> >> So I wanted vertical panels in GNOME. This is easy in Windows and
> >> works well in everything up to Windows 7, where it is a kludge but
> >> still works.
> >>
> >> It never worked worth a damn in GNOME 2, very badly in KDE and
> >> poorly in XFCE.
> >>
> >
> > I had huge issues with GNOME 2's vertical panels, but I find XFCE's
> > are easily good enough.  Yes, there are issues, but they don't
> > irritate me anywhere near as much as Unity's and GNOME3's complete
> > inflexibility with being able to reconfigure the launcher and the
> > menu bar (top panel) to be where I want them.
> >
> > Other than that and having to experiment around to set various
> > features the way I can live with them, I much prefer the whole menu
> > system of XFCE above and beyond what I found to be a confusing mess
> > in Unity.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you are!
> 
> > Maybe I'm just a stiff from the old school, but I like it.  (I never
> > liked much of anything about KDE, so I won't even go there, not even
> > to argue about it.)
> 
> That makes TWO of us. I just like the minimal approach without bells &
> whistles... and if i want some i can install it. I started using
> xubuntu before Unity and kubuntu i found too many bells & whistles -
> but nice with it (if you want it).
> 
> james
> 
Uh, hmm...  Minimal?

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