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Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

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Post by Fuxy »

feintruled wrote: post #4

Not before time! I would occasionally use it in the Windows style "start typing the app name" use case and it was annoying enough that it seemed to prioritize the online searches making you wait for a couple of seconds before it showed the local results, but it would also often bring up weird matches for adult content too!

I switched to linux mint a while back and i have to say I'm very satisfied of how stable and easy to use it is.

It's basically Ubuntu LTS without all the buggy slow crap like unity.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#12

Post by mhall119 »

rpgmaker wrote: post #8

They might as well remove it altogether... Btw, when it's Canonical going to announce that they will stop developing Ubuntu Phone? The writing has been in the wall for months and with Mozilla's recent announcement I believe it's just a matter of time. I think the vast majority of the mobile OS market has just moved on and is pretty ok with the two most popular OS options. I kind of feel sorry for Ubuntu[1] and Linux[…

Why would having fewer competitors make someone want to drop out of the race?

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#13

Post by quadrangle »

rpgmaker wrote: post #8

They might as well remove it altogether... Btw, when it's Canonical going to announce that they will stop developing Ubuntu Phone? The writing has been in the wall for months and with Mozilla's recent announcement I believe it's just a matter of time. I think the vast majority of the mobile OS market has just moved on and is pretty ok with the two most popular OS options. I kind of feel sorry for Ubuntu[1] and Linux[…

Android isn't a modified Linux, it just uses the very same Linux kernel as any other OS that uses Linux. Android is otherwise this userspace thing where other Linux-based systems have X11 and such with Qt and gtk and other things.

Although not perfect, this really shows the value in the name "GNU/Linux" for the desktop distros and such vs "Android/Linux"

Anyway, Ubuntu phone may not make it (seems unlikely), but it has more of a shot given the death of Firefox OS, not less. Ubuntu phone now has less competition in the alternative-mobile space.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#14

Post by Afforess »

Fuxy wrote: post #11
feintruled wrote: post #4

Not before time! I would occasionally use it in the Windows style "start typing the app name" use case and it was annoying enough that it seemed to prioritize the online searches making you wait for a couple of seconds before it showed the local results, but it would also often bring up weird matches for adult content too!

I switched to linux mint a while back and i have to say I'm very satisfied of how stable and easy to use it is. It's basically Ubuntu LTS without all the buggy slow crap like unity.

Call me crazy, but I really like Unity. Back on windows, I always kept by taskbar on the left side anyway, and I prefer the dash search to anything else I've seen.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#15

Post by [deleted] »

Fuxy wrote: post #11
feintruled wrote: post #4

Not before time! I would occasionally use it in the Windows style "start typing the app name" use case and it was annoying enough that it seemed to prioritize the online searches making you wait for a couple of seconds before it showed the local results, but it would also often bring up weird matches for adult content too!

I switched to linux mint a while back and i have to say I'm very satisfied of how stable and easy to use it is. It's basically Ubuntu LTS without all the buggy slow crap like unity.

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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#16

Post by eropple »

quadrangle wrote: post #13
rpgmaker wrote: post #8

They might as well remove it altogether... Btw, when it's Canonical going to announce that they will stop developing Ubuntu Phone? The writing has been in the wall for months and with Mozilla's recent announcement I believe it's just a matter of time. I think the vast majority of the mobile OS market has just moved on and is pretty ok with the two most popular OS options. I kind of feel sorry for Ubuntu[1] and Linux[…

Android isn't a modified Linux, it just uses the very same Linux kernel as any other OS that uses Linux. Android is otherwise this userspace thing where other Linux-based systems have X11 and such with Qt and gtk and other things. Although not perfect, this really shows the value in the name "GNU/Linux" for the desktop distros and such vs "Android/Linux" Anyway, Ubuntu phone may not make it (seems unlikely), but it h…

> this really shows the value in the name "GNU/Linux" for the desktop distros and such vs "Android/Linux"

I don't really agree. For desktop users, the DE matters a lot more than who made `cp`. For server users, the distro matters more because of the particular weirdness of each.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#17

Post by 3princip »

Afforess wrote: post #14
Fuxy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to linux mint a while back and i have to say I'm very satisfied of how stable and easy to use it is. It's basically Ubuntu LTS without all the buggy slow crap like unity.

Call me crazy, but I really like Unity. Back on windows, I always kept by taskbar on the left side anyway, and I prefer the dash search to anything else I've seen.

Me too, I prefer unity + auto-hide taskbar. At first there were some reservations until it got familiar, now anything else doesn't cut it. I hope they don't abandon it or change it drastically as is so often the way these things go.

Re Ubuntu, it helps that it works exceptionally well on anything remotely modern (6 year old PC here with SSD, won't be upgrading until it dies), and it is getting incrementally better with each release.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#18

Post by tombrossman »

Theodores wrote: post #2

I have been using Ubuntu since before Unity (when this 'dash' thing arrived) and I don't think I have ever used the dash. If I need to find a file or something on the internets I am more likely to think 'I must use Gopher for this!!!' than I am ever to think of using 'Ubuntu dash'. It is one of those helpful creations like the F1 key that is a great idea in theory but not used in practice. In some way they have manag…

Give the recoll package (and Unity scope) a try and your opinion might change. I use this all the time and it's pretty amazing to just type a string of text into the dash and see whichever document contains that text string appear in my search results. If I already have a terminal window open I'll do grep -R "text-string" /dir/ or if not I hit the super key and type the text string for recoll, both are equally fast.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#19

Post by yAnonymous »

Afforess wrote: post #14
Fuxy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to linux mint a while back and i have to say I'm very satisfied of how stable and easy to use it is. It's basically Ubuntu LTS without all the buggy slow crap like unity.

Call me crazy, but I really like Unity. Back on windows, I always kept by taskbar on the left side anyway, and I prefer the dash search to anything else I've seen.

Same. It looks slick, is very fast (thanks to well defined and configurable keyboard shortcuts) and easy to use.

Whatever the haters have against it, in the end I get stuff done faster and spend less time configuring my DE.

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

#20

Post by nonotmeplease »

eropple wrote: post #16
quadrangle wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android isn't a modified Linux, it just uses the very same Linux kernel as any other OS that uses Linux. Android is otherwise this userspace thing where other Linux-based systems have X11 and such with Qt and gtk and other things. Although not perfect, this really shows the value in the name "GNU/Linux" for the desktop distros and such vs "Android/Linux" Anyway, Ubuntu phone may not make it (seems unlikely), but it h…

> this really shows the value in the name "GNU/Linux" for the desktop distros and such vs "Android/Linux" I don't really agree. For desktop users, the DE matters a lot more than who made `cp`. For server users, the distro matters more because of the particular weirdness of each.

GNOME is part of the GNU project, as well as emacs, gtk, etc.
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