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Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
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Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#22For me the killer feature of Unity is the HUD[0] allowing you to simply type to find menu items. Save so much time going through options it is incredible.
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#23Awesome. It was the last linux desktop I liked. Vertical appbar worked better than anything available today.
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#24To provide some historic context: Unity was released in times when there was this "Netbook" trend, started by Asus EeePC with 7" display, followed by a lot of other cheap Netbooks in the 7"-10" display category. Additionally, Canonical pushed to become a mobile/smartphone OS vendor. These constrained display sizes were some of the main factors in the UX design of Unity. Fast forward to today, Netbooks were a short-li…
Should be noted that compared to Unity, GNOME 3 is an even more extreme variant of the phone/netbook UI.
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is MATE these days? I switched to Xfce when the Gnome 3 debacle hit, and after spending about 10 minutes arranging things to look like Gnome 2, have never looked back.
It's a nice Gnome 2 experience. If you're set up with Xfce there's little reason to switch, but if you want to go Gnome 3 -> Gnome 2 then MATE is the best option imo.
I've just read the wikipedia page and was delighted to find they have a fork of gedit which doesn't hide the menus! That's now installed on my system.
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#26That's exciting. I must be one of the few who actually liked Unity a lot, probably better than Gnome. From what I understand, a lot of the underlayment was 'hacky' and abandoned. While I don't like most NIH that Canonical does(snaps, upstart, mir), I really wish they'd have kept Unity.
When Gnome2 was finally removed from Ubuntu, I tried Unity desktop for a while, didn't like it and installed Gnome3... ... ... ... and after an hour decided, that Unity is actually not that bad . Almost every change Gnome3 did over Gnome2 was a change for the worse or for far worse . Unnecessary waste of space on meaningless panels, unnecessarily revamped menus, etc. Just no. I didn't dive in this matter in detail, b…
> Almost every change Gnome3 did over Gnome2 was a change for the worse or for far worse.
At first it felt like they just went for change for a sake of change so they could be unique among the DEs but now, it seems the long-term goal wasn't just creating a combination between desktop and mobile environment but aiming at being the mobile environment first with optional support for desktops.
And indeed, reading all experiences people had with devs working around Gnome nowadays it seems they forgot they're an open-source community and decided to play corporation card, where it's totally fine to ignore the end-user and their feedback.
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#27Kind of off-topic, but I've been enjoying Regolith[0] on Ubuntu lately.
It uses i3 as a window manager, but integrates a bit more neatly with things like the Gnome Settings application so you can use the tiling window manager but still don't have to configure everything the hard way.
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#28Unity was great. Pop comes close, but unity just worked.
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#29and Unity 8 was forked as https://ubuntu-touch.io/
Re: Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
#30To provide some historic context: Unity was released in times when there was this "Netbook" trend, started by Asus EeePC with 7" display, followed by a lot of other cheap Netbooks in the 7"-10" display category. Additionally, Canonical pushed to become a mobile/smartphone OS vendor. These constrained display sizes were some of the main factors in the UX design of Unity. Fast forward to today, Netbooks were a short-li…
Should be noted that compared to Unity, GNOME 3 is an even more extreme variant of the phone/netbook UI.
I'm wondering why more people are not using KDE. It is a honest desktop environment which does not try to pretend phone/netbook or parrot Mac OS X.
Many of KDE apps are the best in a given category. Konsole certainly is.