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Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktopShuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktopPosted Mar 6, 2012 6:20 UTC (Tue) by scientes (guest, #83068)Parent article: Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop
Am I the only one that thinks that Unity is totally hideous. Managing to force everyone to relearn their habits while not being nearly as nice as gnome-shell? I mean the various menus of the upper-right area are WAY over-long and gross.
-Shawn
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Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 6, 2012 16:07 UTC (Tue) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link] You write "totally hideous". How can this be reasonable criticism?You are among the group that criticise Unity from just a partisan viewpoint.
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 6, 2012 19:19 UTC (Tue) by jedidiah (guest, #20319) [Link]
No. You are simply choosing to fixate only only those things that fits your little agenda.
Shiny new things are great. However, they should never come at the expense of legacy interfaces and it should always be trivial to completely revert.
Unity is a fine idiots desktop. However until Metro is the norm it should not be the Ubuntu default. Otherwise you violate the principle of "consistency" in HID. That principle doesn't just mean subjecting everyone to vi.
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 6, 2012 21:54 UTC (Tue) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link]
"[my] little agenda"? "[Unity is an] idiots[sic] desktop"?
You have partisan views. Even if Unity came with a free 1936 Chateau Margaux bottle of wine, you would still complain that Unity comes with an "old" wine.
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 7, 2012 0:20 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]
Personal attacks have little place here.
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 8, 2012 14:16 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]
>Even if Unity came with a free 1936 Chateau Margaux bottle of wine, you would still complain that Unity comes with an "old" wine.
I know, right? And it's completely untrue, Ubuntu 12.04 ships wine 1.4, which is as new as wine gets!
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 7, 2012 22:49 UTC (Wed) by HenrikH (guest, #31152) [Link]
So we who appreciates Unity is idiots now? Truth be told I had some troubles getting used to Unity but now when I'm using 10.04 or Win7 I constantly find myself looking for the Unity launcher and (on win7) I miss having the window buttons on the left, it somehow feels more correct to have them on the left side.
I run Unity on our home machine and wife and kids have never complained, not even when I made the switch, they quickly adopted without any fuzz. But then again we might be idiots...
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 8, 2012 8:58 UTC (Thu) by gervin23 (guest, #13977) [Link]
I'm also an idiot. As a longtime Linux user I must say the switch to 12.04+Unity has been a pleasant surprise. My Thinkpad T60 finally suspends properly (broken since 11.04), power consumption has improved, video mode switches perfectly when undocking, and I'm finding the whole Unity experience simple yet productive. Granted, most of what I just described are kernel/driver issues but Ubuntu is making sure all these things are nicely weaved and work properly. I've always wanted to like XFCE but it has never handled my multi-monitor setup properly among other shortcomings.
Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop Posted Mar 8, 2012 18:20 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]
You can move the Win7 taskbar to any edge of the screen (since unlike Unity and GNOME Shell, Windows has a sane design).
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