Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
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Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#2I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04) and I'm still using Unity. Technically Unity is not gone, but it's no longer a default, Gnome is.
I've tried Gnome and was very disappointed. No global menu integration which means losing useful screen space for no good reason. Tray icons somehow look squished and ragged. No fractional scaling is a massive issue for me since I'm working with dual 27 inch 4K displays. Tray bar only shows only on one of the monitors and you need a plugin to make it appear on both which is just ridiculous. No more convenient built in features/options like auto resizing a window to 1/4 of the screen by dragging it with a mouse to one of the corners, etc.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#3Unity was one of the reasons I switched away from Ubuntu. It may be time to try Ubuntu again :D
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#4I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04) and I'm still using Unity. Technically Unity is not gone, but it's no longer a default, Gnome is. I've tried Gnome and was very disappointed. No global menu integration which means losing useful screen space for no good reason. Tray icons somehow look squished and ragged. No fractional scaling is a massive issue for me since I'm working with dual 27 inch 4K displays. Tray bar…
I'm with you. Maybe it's just that I'm familiar with Unity but GNOME feels like a step back in almost every aspect.
On the other hand you can just install KDE Plasma that went a long way and works fine if you just stick to the UI - all your pain points should work out of the box or can be configured using systemsettings. KDE applications are a mixed bag - I love dolphin but kmail and other stuff feels strange. Also printing is way better in GNOME apps, not sure why exactly.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#5I've been trying to find out whether Ubuntu 18.04 still supports the gnome-flashback package. I've tried to install it via apt-get in a virtual machine but then there was no option to select it as my session after a reboot.
Does anyone know more about this by any chance?
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#6I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04) and I'm still using Unity. Technically Unity is not gone, but it's no longer a default, Gnome is. I've tried Gnome and was very disappointed. No global menu integration which means losing useful screen space for no good reason. Tray icons somehow look squished and ragged. No fractional scaling is a massive issue for me since I'm working with dual 27 inch 4K displays. Tray bar…
There was a global-menu extension for GNOME, but it's no longer supported. The reason for this apparently was the fact that the extension was not compatible with Wayland, so the developers moved on.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#7I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04) and I'm still using Unity. Technically Unity is not gone, but it's no longer a default, Gnome is. I've tried Gnome and was very disappointed. No global menu integration which means losing useful screen space for no good reason. Tray icons somehow look squished and ragged. No fractional scaling is a massive issue for me since I'm working with dual 27 inch 4K displays. Tray bar…
Gnome Shell is about extensions, you want something to work differently - find a suitable plugin or write it.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#8I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04) and I'm still using Unity. Technically Unity is not gone, but it's no longer a default, Gnome is. I've tried Gnome and was very disappointed. No global menu integration which means losing useful screen space for no good reason. Tray icons somehow look squished and ragged. No fractional scaling is a massive issue for me since I'm working with dual 27 inch 4K displays. Tray bar…
With Gnome you use extensions.
> No more convenient built in features/options like auto resizing a window to 1/4 of the screen by dragging it with a mouse to one of the corners, etc.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#9Unity was one of the reasons I switched away from Ubuntu. It may be time to try Ubuntu again :D
It's always been possible to run the window manager of your choice on Ubuntu, as it is the case on all Linuxen.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#10I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04) and I'm still using Unity. Technically Unity is not gone, but it's no longer a default, Gnome is. I've tried Gnome and was very disappointed. No global menu integration which means losing useful screen space for no good reason. Tray icons somehow look squished and ragged. No fractional scaling is a massive issue for me since I'm working with dual 27 inch 4K displays. Tray bar…
have the unity devs been laid off or are they working on improving gnome now do you know?