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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
#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
On macOS the desktop actually has slightly different behavior than a typical Finder window. Normally the desktop shows Hard disks, External disks, and Connected Servers; but if you open "~/Desktop" in a Finder window none of those items will be present. Honestly, I never use the desktop for anything so getting rid of it isn't a big deal to me. Could you explain what kind of things you use it for? What's so bad about…
For me that's basically the "current place I'm working on". If I got a project, I'll have a dedicated directory. But a lot of stuff I are not a project, or will be done forever in a few hours. So the desktop is a transition area, easily accessible, where I can put all the file I need for the task at hand right now. It's also the place I see everyday when logging it, so I can review what needs to be filed, and what ne…
Yep, same here. It's kinda like my 'scratch space' - a quick place to drop downloads, screenshots, work on them a bit, and have them easily accessible from all workspaces.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> It seems strange that Gnome is heading to an non-intuitive direction. Really? I've never heard anything but non-intuitive ramblings from UI design people. None of them seem to ever actually use computers. Rather, they dream up use cases based on contrived scenarios. I want one thing: The icon is where it was yesterday. Gnome, unity all the others have one job: Let me launch the program I need and get the F out of…
What's wrong with Windows key->type "email"->Enter? That's how GNOME works.
will it open another instance if one is already open, or switch over to it?
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems strange that Gnome is heading to an non-intuitive direction. You could have all the cool stuff but I think you also should provide the familiar Desktop metaphor elements. I already made a comment about the missing type-ahead search in Nautilus file browser, which decision destroys many people's workflows.
This one is so annoying to me. I keep typing names of file and it searches it recursively, so instead of going to what I want faster, I waste time. It's such a weird decision, as searching recursively something is a rare task, so having a dedicated button would be fine. While going to a file/folder in the current dir is pretty much the basic interaction with a file manager. I don't get their reasoning there. If someb…
Can you install Caja? Someone posted a patch in reply to my comment just above.
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
Restore sanity by applying the following patch: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/q3kverlay/tree/x11-libs/gtk+... (or just use this overlay if you run Gentoo)
Any tutorial on this ? And above all, how to automate it so that it's applied after updates ?
You can try https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nauti...
I'll try to keep it up to date.
(or the Nemo file browser, which also retained split-window functionality)
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#296My experience is quite the contrary which makes me wonder, does it really behave so differently among systems?!? touchpad and bluetooth pairing (a2dp) are not working after suspend+resume. Notice: touchpad can be fixed with a script in /lib/sysetmd/system-sleep. Home encryption gone?!?! Why for fucks sake?!? This was one of the USPs for me to use it over Debian. Yeah it can be done manually, but for beginners this is…
Yeah, BT after resume was f'ed for me too. Solved it by:
- upgrading bluez to 5.49: https://launchpad.net/~bluetooth/+archive/ubuntu/bluez
- hacking a script that toggles rfkill (un)block on resume
BT applet, at least on Unity (yes, I'm one of those people) seems to be borked in that it can't enable BT after resume. I'm guessing it's because it remembers the wrong BT device ID (which gets incremented after every sleep/resume, at least on my system).
Re: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
#297Unity was never the main reason people chose to use Ubuntu -- it was always (well, from when I first heard about it until I lost interest (5 years ago)) the claim that Ubuntu is easier to install than Debian. I never understood the fixation about ease of installing , as that's something I either did once every few years on custom hardware, or had automated already using a CFM. For stuff I installed manually (laptops,…
I went with it because if a project had binaries at all, there was likely a .deb tested with ubuntu. If there were drivers for linux, they were likely tested against ubuntu. Ease of installation is rarely talking about the install screen; it's talking about everything just working without having to dig around the internet, and installation is a good proxy for that.
> I went with it because if a project had binaries at all, there was likely a .deb tested with ubuntu.
Given that each release of Ubuntu starts as a fresh fork from Debian's testing branch, this is not a compelling case for Ubuntu over Debian.
> If there were drivers for linux, they were likely tested against ubuntu.
As above, and it doesn't really matter if you meant drivers for Linux (the kernel), or GNU/Linux (a distro).
I've never heard of any drivers that work on Debian but not on Ubuntu, or vice versa.
> Ease of installation is rarely talking about the install screen; it's talking about everything just working without having to dig around the internet, and installation is a good proxy for that.
When people talk about the ease of installation, they are almost definitely talking about the ease of installation.
"Just works" is a useful phrase to describe a range of (other) user experiences, but again it's not clear how Ubuntu has (and arguably had) any significant advantages over Debian.