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It would have been nice to have a test group that used the classic Gnome 2 desktop. This would give the Unity scores a bit more context.
I guess that really wasn't the point. The intention was to find out the usability bugs in Unity.
Overall, pretty interesting. A lot of those are definitely usability bugs. I wish someone would do a comparison between mac os x, windows, ubuntu with the same tasks to see how they stacked up against each other. However: 5/11 participants (P2, P3, P5, P9, P10, P11) crashed Unity during their hour of testing. And towards the end of her test, P11 opened a zombie quicklist that stayed on top of everything and didn't re…
I have to disagree pretty vehemently. Are you running 11.04 beta2? I've been running it for months now and I LOVE Unity. I installed on my wife's machine, and while she doesn't love it (she really doesn't care one way or another about computers etc etc) she appreciates it in many ways. Though, the best way I can describe my wife's interaction with Unity is she gets less annoyed with it than she does/did with our iMac…
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Is there a good name for a spreadsheet application besides "Spreadsheet?" "VisiCalc" was the first one on a PC, "Lotus 1-2-3" became popular later, "Excel" is now the dominant one...
"Gnumeric" at least has something to do with the task, and "KSpread" is basically "spreadsheet"
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I have to disagree pretty vehemently. Are you running 11.04 beta2? I've been running it for months now and I LOVE Unity. I installed on my wife's machine, and while she doesn't love it (she really doesn't care one way or another about computers etc etc) she appreciates it in many ways. Though, the best way I can describe my wife's interaction with Unity is she gets less annoyed with it than she does/did with our iMac…
I'm not sure what you were disagreeing with, but I have to disagree with your disagreeing because if 5/11 people crashed the thing in an hour , it's completely unusable for many people, me included.
Also, the statement about Ubuntu being less stable than debian testing. I don't know the GPs specific instance, but Ubuntu has basically made debian a usable desktop.
I am really surprised one thing didn't come up. It's about the super+(?) shortcut. If you press them very quickly, say 'super+D', then it will take to desktop and open dash as well. To be safe, you have press 'super', wait till numbers appear on the icons in launcher and then press 'D'
Really?? You are surprised that the test group didn't somehow magically discover an edge case in a feature they didn't know existed and has no discovery mechanism?
> P7 and P11 thought that "LibreOffice Calc" was a calculator "Calc" is just not a smart name for a spreadsheet application. > and P7 and P9 thought Ubuntu Software Center was the Recycle Bin. I understand that, because that is what the icon looks like.
I am really surprised one thing didn't come up. It's about the super+(?) shortcut. If you press them very quickly, say 'super+D', then it will take to desktop and open dash as well. To be safe, you have press 'super', wait till numbers appear on the icons in launcher and then press 'D'
I am really surprised one thing didn't come up. It's about the super+(?) shortcut. Really?? You are surprised that the test group didn't somehow magically discover an edge case in a feature they didn't know existed and has no discovery mechanism?
It happens to me 90% of the time I use super+d.
I remember about 10 years ago, with the rise of XP and the advent of OS X, expecting Linux desktop to fall ever further behind on a usable & full-featured desktop.
Here we are discussing the usability tests of big UI innovations.
I'd like to thank everyone who got us here! (cough including Redmond cough)
I run with a laptop (display on, but rarely used) connected to an external monitor. Linux assumes the laptop is the default, and changing the external to primary is next to impossible. Unity puts everything important on the laptop display in this configuration. That alone is a deal breaker for me. Note that Ubuntu Classic works perfectly in this setup. My panels go to the external monitor when it's plugged in, and mo…
xrandr --output VGA1 --primary
Some of these are humbling. They reinforce how disconnected I-- a programmer-- am from the average person. > P1 recovered amazingly well after trying to save "Letter to Mr Smith 08/04/11", and getting the vile response "Error stating file '/home/ubuntu/Documents/Letter to Mr Smith 08/04': No such file or directory" That's something I'd never consider, what with various directory separators baked into my subconscious.
Just for fun I tried saving a document in Microsoft Office 2007 here with a filename containing slashes. I got a slightly better response: "Ogiltigt filnamn" (Illegal filename). Not as confusing, but still no help at all on what was wrong with it or how to correct it.