Unity

Bug #668415
Comment #170

Comment 170 for bug 668415

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elian (jestevens-nospam) wrote on 2011-11-01:

#170

OK, so I tried MINT for a while, and it was okay but still not perfect, and then I tried Kubuntu, KDE sure has changed a lot in the last 10 years...neat but I don't want to have to relearn the WHOLE interface. In the end I reloaded the mainline distro of "orrnery ocelot" - even with Unity it seems to have the most polished interface. I WILL tell you though that without the nVidia binary drivers my system would've been dead in the water..I installed the 173 post-install version and things seem to be better. nouveau team has worked very hard but that driver just wasn't very responsive at all for 3D.

I am SLOWLY starting to use Unity, THREE clicks is still waay too much to start an installed app. You should have a link to all of the installed apps on the favorites tab to make it more apparent. Even when you find the apps in the next tab over it still only shows five big icons and a little tiny blurb that says "(Read More)".

Since I (unfortunately) have to use windows every day at work I am still looking for the panel with the list of running tasks at the bottom of the screen. It took a while to figure out that the system settings have ALL been moved to the far right drop down menu - it was really irritating searching for the settings panels through the menu before I figured that out.

Is there any way to pin the menu open? I tried searching for "Pidgin" and nothing appeared for a long time - then I had a desire to go look something up in firefox..the panel slid away and of course when I opened it back up my search was cancelled. Like the person who started this thread I have noticed that when you right click on the bar you get no choices for options..

Any way to get nautilus to show up in an actual window, with a real frame? What if people want to drag and drop files between two windows? As an A+ certified IT support specialist for more than 15 years I will tell you that there were some people who I trained - drag and drop is the only way they figured out copying files.

I really, really wish that you guys would consider forking GNOME2 and continuing to develop a low power version of the interface for old hardware - a stated goal of this distro is making software available to all people right? it's a shame that all of those used P-III PC's nobody wants anymore can't still be used for a few more years in schools and non-profits. I say P-III because I'm pretty sure the majority of P4 systems I've seen are power hungry RAMBUS based designs...okay for their time but maybe better to retire those..I dunno.

Any UI testing groups I can be a part of - is there a link for that? It isn't hard to see that you're pushing the distro toward an app store but hey, I guess it costs money to keep development in business so I can't say I blame you.

My only other complaint right now is that shutdown is still slow - need to either speed it up or offer better feedback than things just sort of hanging there.

OK, so I tried MINT for a while, and it was okay but still not perfect, and then I tried Kubuntu, KDE sure has changed a lot in the last 10 years...neat but I don't want to have to relearn the WHOLE interface.  In the end I reloaded the mainline distro of "orrnery ocelot" - even with Unity it seems to have the most polished interface.  I WILL tell you though that without the nVidia binary drivers my system would've been dead in the water..I installed the 173 post-install version and things seem to be better.    nouveau team has worked very hard but that driver just wasn't very responsive at all for 3D.

I am SLOWLY starting to use Unity, THREE clicks is still waay too much to start an installed app.  You should have a link to all of the installed apps on the favorites tab to make it more apparent.  Even when you find the apps in the next tab over it still only shows five big icons and a little tiny blurb that says "(Read More)".

Since I (unfortunately) have to use windows every day at work I am still looking for the panel with the list of running tasks at the bottom of the screen.  It took a while to figure out that the system settings have ALL been moved to the far right drop down menu - it was really irritating searching for the settings panels through the menu before I figured that out.

Is there any way to pin the menu open?  I tried searching for "Pidgin" and nothing appeared for a long time - then I had a desire to go look something up in firefox..the panel slid away and of course when I opened it back up my search was cancelled.  Like the person who started this thread I have noticed that when you right click on the bar you get no choices for options..

Any way to get nautilus to show up in an actual window, with a real frame?  What if people want to drag and drop files between two windows?  As an A+ certified IT support specialist for more than 15 years I will tell you that there were some people who I trained  - drag and drop is the only way they figured out copying files.

I really, really wish that you guys would consider forking GNOME2 and continuing to develop a low power version of the interface for old hardware - a stated goal of this distro is making software available to all people right?  it's a shame that all of those used P-III PC's nobody wants anymore can't still be used for a few more years in schools and non-profits.  I say P-III because I'm pretty sure the majority of P4 systems I've seen are power hungry RAMBUS based designs...okay for their time but maybe better to retire those..I dunno.

Any UI testing groups I can be a part of - is there a link for that?  It isn't hard to see that you're pushing the distro toward an app store but hey, I guess it costs money to keep development in business so I can't say I blame you.

My only other complaint right now is that shutdown is still slow - need to either speed it up or offer better feedback than things just sort of hanging there.