Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
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Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#2I haven't tried Unity yet because I heard to wasn't quite stable. But from what I saw of a friends laptop who had it installed, it looks PERFECT for netbooks, even tablets (now that we have multi-touch support built in). I think this makes sense seeing as the future of computers (desktops included) will probably be touchable interfaces that can use that kind of layout.
Sweet!
Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#3I haven't tried Unity yet because I heard to wasn't quite stable. But from what I saw of a friends laptop who had it installed, it looks PERFECT for netbooks, even tablets (now that we have multi-touch support built in). I think this makes sense seeing as the future of computers (desktops included) will probably be touchable interfaces that can use that kind of layout. Sweet!
I tried it, unfortunately doesn't seem to work on my laptop :/
I'm not sure what's the deal with it, seems to have some special hardware requirements. I can't fathom what these are, seeing as I have an ATI Radeon video card.
Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#4On it's current state it's pretty slow and bloated. Let's hope that on six months they can fix the suck. Kudos for trying something new and not copying OSX or Windows 7.
Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#5On it's current state it's pretty slow and bloated. Let's hope that on six months they can fix the suck. Kudos for trying something new and not copying OSX or Windows 7.
As well as being slow and bloated, it also seems rather rough around the edges. It doesn't feel like a particularly polished product somehow.
I doubt everything will fixed in six months, but Canonical tend toward the Google model of development; release something rough first, then refine it on the whetstone of user feedback.
Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
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Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#7Cool. I always thought Unity looked awesome, I'll be happy to have it on my desktop.
Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#8I think it's a great move. They were wasting time and energy in spats with Gnome. Now they can do what they want with the desktop without anyone getting upset that they are not trying hard enough to work their changes in upstream or adding features that aren't wanted upstream.
Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#9On it's current state it's pretty slow and bloated. Let's hope that on six months they can fix the suck. Kudos for trying something new and not copying OSX or Windows 7.
I wish they would copy Windows 7 a bit... a lot of the features in Win 7 that don't conflict with GNOME are really nice.
Unrelated: GNOME still doesn't understand the concept of "chunking": You only want 5-7 items in a group for people to comprehend it best. When Ubuntu's System > Preferences drop-down has 25 items in it, you have a bad UI.
Re: Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity
#10I think it's a great move. They were wasting time and energy in spats with Gnome. Now they can do what they want with the desktop without anyone getting upset that they are not trying hard enough to work their changes in upstream or adding features that aren't wanted upstream.
> They were wasting time and energy in spats with Gnome.
Gnome is much more than just metacity or gnome-shell. Even with Unity, Ubuntu will still depend on upstream gnome software for its desktop.