Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
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Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#2>> The take-away: Even as Ubuntu forges paths across hardware where traditional Linux (pace Android fans) has never before ventured, and Canonical commercializes the operating system to an extent not yet seen, it is keen to keep peace with Ubuntu users.
I'm not sure what that means but if it means Ubuntu will soon not be recognizable then I don't know if that's a good thing. Unity removed functionality we had in Gnome 2 that the Gnome developers had ironed out over years. Now we have a cool looking Launcher that is barely usable compared to Gnome 2 Panels.
We have global menus like a freaking Mac, unless you remove the two offending packages to restore normal application owned menus.
We have a solid bar at the top which without global menus is useless and even with them is questionable.
Bring back Gnome 2 Panels please Canonical.
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#3>> The take-away: Even as Ubuntu forges paths across hardware where traditional Linux (pace Android fans) has never before ventured, and Canonical commercializes the operating system to an extent not yet seen, it is keen to keep peace with Ubuntu users. I'm not sure what that means but if it means Ubuntu will soon not be recognizable then I don't know if that's a good thing. Unity removed functionality we had in Gnom…
Have you tried Xfce? A lot of Gnome 2 users have migrated to it and are quite happy.
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#4>> The take-away: Even as Ubuntu forges paths across hardware where traditional Linux (pace Android fans) has never before ventured, and Canonical commercializes the operating system to an extent not yet seen, it is keen to keep peace with Ubuntu users. I'm not sure what that means but if it means Ubuntu will soon not be recognizable then I don't know if that's a good thing. Unity removed functionality we had in Gnom…
Unless It's changed in 13.04, you can simply install gnome-panel to get the old-fashioned panels back. It's one of the first things I do on a new Ubuntu install.
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#5>> The take-away: Even as Ubuntu forges paths across hardware where traditional Linux (pace Android fans) has never before ventured, and Canonical commercializes the operating system to an extent not yet seen, it is keen to keep peace with Ubuntu users. I'm not sure what that means but if it means Ubuntu will soon not be recognizable then I don't know if that's a good thing. Unity removed functionality we had in Gnom…
I realise you might hate unity, but I just wanted to make clear, some people (me) like it!
I've tried plain gnome 3, latest kde, xmonad and xfce, and out of all of them have decided I like unity the best. The combination of:
* Press win key + type 'th' gets thunderbird selected, win key + 'ch' gets chrome gives me quick access to all my apps.
* I like a dock with fixed icons in fixed positions, so I can open an app, or get open windows, with 'mouse memory'.
I found the other window managers I tried very poor in their default configuration. Maybe I could configure them to act better, or more like I want? But I don't want to spend the time (I did spend a couple of days trying xmonad, before giving up, I really wanted to like it but it seems purposefully designed to be painful to configure)
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#6Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#7>> The take-away: Even as Ubuntu forges paths across hardware where traditional Linux (pace Android fans) has never before ventured, and Canonical commercializes the operating system to an extent not yet seen, it is keen to keep peace with Ubuntu users. I'm not sure what that means but if it means Ubuntu will soon not be recognizable then I don't know if that's a good thing. Unity removed functionality we had in Gnom…
Have you tried Xfce? A lot of Gnome 2 users have migrated to it and are quite happy.
Posting this from my laptop running Ubuntustudio; has XFCE4 by default and nicely done
CentOS/Scientific Linux/Springdale Linux 6.x provide an approximation to Ubuntu 10.04 including Gnome 2.x. Support until 2020.
Those nice people at Mint Linux are developing an alternative desktop UI.
Idea: Perhaps someone needs to register 'idontlikeunity.org' or something. Then we can just link to the site with simple alternatives and keep the noise down.
PS: I use Unity/12.04 on the desktop. Quite happy with it as I tend to use the ALT-letter keys for menus anyway.
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#8>> The take-away: Even as Ubuntu forges paths across hardware where traditional Linux (pace Android fans) has never before ventured, and Canonical commercializes the operating system to an extent not yet seen, it is keen to keep peace with Ubuntu users. I'm not sure what that means but if it means Ubuntu will soon not be recognizable then I don't know if that's a good thing. Unity removed functionality we had in Gnom…
I'd suggest trying Cinnamon. http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#9>> The take-away: Even as Ubuntu forges paths across hardware where traditional Linux (pace Android fans) has never before ventured, and Canonical commercializes the operating system to an extent not yet seen, it is keen to keep peace with Ubuntu users. I'm not sure what that means but if it means Ubuntu will soon not be recognizable then I don't know if that's a good thing. Unity removed functionality we had in Gnom…
Out of curiosity what can't you do with the launcher/indicators in Unity that you could do in GNOME2?
Re: Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
#10Yeah they're going to continue to focus on trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole by creating a soccer mom friendly Linux and trying to piss off the rest of the Linux community.
I say go for it, keep focusing on removing features that took years to perfect and reinventing the wheel for the sake of reinvention while chasing a group that doesn't care about their operating system. The sooner they make themselves irrelevant the better.