Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica)

Posted Dec 18, 2009 19:42 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica) by TRS-80
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There is also the Karmic notification change. They replaced a nice, simple notification scheme with blurry black blobs that obscure random areas on the right of your screen and can't be clicked or dismissed. It's really odd!

Ubuntu packages software really well and Upstart rocks. So far, however, all of their UI innovations that I know of have been mistakes.

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Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu (ars technica)

Posted Dec 24, 2009 15:46 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

I like the new scheme. The old one pissed me off daily because it was always obscuring something that I wanted to see or use and it wouldn't go away.

The new scheme has the advantages that (a) it appears lower down so it doesn't obscure window buttons and controls, (b) if you mouse over it, it becomes virtually see-through so you can ignore it, and (c) you can click right through it so you don't have to wait for it to disappear before you can use anything in that part of the screen.

The only thing I don't like about it is how long it stays: I really don't need 15s or whatever to understand the simple message it's telling me. If it stayed about half as long as it does now that would be perfect for me.