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Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

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Post by andybak » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 4:15 AM UTC

commandar wrote: post #59

hasenj wrote: post #16

Completely disagree. I've been using Unity for a while now, it's pretty awesome and much much better than anything (classical) gnome could ever be. This article sounds like "I've just used OS X for the first time and there's no start menu, instead it has a weird thing that's like a dock or something." So, no more gnome-panel applets. What's the big deal? Most of them were useless and ugly anyway. And yes, there is a…

>if you maximize Firefox This is what has me concerned. I never maximize windows. I've not used Unity yet, but the trend with both it and OS X Lion seems to be moving toward more and more modal interface paradigms in a world where we have the largest, highest resolutions displays that have ever been available to the average person. I'm not happy with the idea, personally.

I would argue the trend is towards smaller screens if anything (small, light laptops, netbooks, tablets etc.).

I always either maximise or snap Windows to some sensible half/third of the screen layout.

I don't want to manually juggle Windows as my OCD kicks in and I start fiddling with them to get them exactly lined up. The Mac's 'sort of maximised but with a bit of the desktop showing round the edges' gives me the shakes...

Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

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Post by rubergly » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 2:00 PM UTC

fader wrote: post #82

rubergly wrote: post #57

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How is the Unity Launcher like Gnome-Do on steroids? Maybe things have improved, but the Launcher of the Unity that's included in Ubuntu 10.10's repositories is really limited. It doesn't have any keyboard shortcut to load the launcher (at least as far as I can tell; it seems like super is the shortcut in current releases, but that does nothing for me in Unity 2.46), and opening things is _nowhere_ near as snappy as…

I agree that it's a fraction of a second slower, as the box populates a bit slower than Gnome-Do. (Though I suspect that's just an area for optimization rather than an intent of the design.) However, for frequently-used applications, you can also pin them to the launcher allowing you to launch them with one key combination. Super-1 will launch the first application penned to the launcher, Super-2 will launch the seco…

Good point. My gnome-do workflow is basically just typing in "chrome", "term", or "emacs" and hitting enter, and that could easily translate to hotkey slots. From what I recall of using unity in 10.10, it was difficult to open the same application in multiple workspaces, though; is that still the case?

Re: Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

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Post by redthrowaway » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 7:16 PM UTC

kami8844 wrote: post #87

jokermatt999 wrote: post #81

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Welcome to Hacker News! :-) FYI, comments like that tend to get downvoted swiftly on Hacker News. You may want to read the guidelines if you haven't already. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Well ... the welcome page says >Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." Seems kind of weird that you'd instantly downvote such a comment, but eh, who gives a damn about karma

My first forays on HN were marked by similar mystery downvotes, and I still get them from time to time. Don't worry about it. HNers are just a fairly fickle bunch, is all.