Who are you and what have you done with the real Alan Pope?
Question about Unity and HUD that no-one's yet answered: why are you making
me type and search for stuff that I used to, errm... have in nice menus and
panels? Still not beginner friendly ("I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to
take it any more!")
Use instead Gnome Fallback Session. Easy.
RC
Robin Catling
Full Circle Podcast
On 30 June 2012 11:37, Alan Pope <alan.pope@???> wrote:
> On 30/06/12 11:09, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
>
>> On 10.04.x, you can access every single app cumulatively installed, ever
>> so easily
>>
>>
> In 12.04 it's very search-oriented. Press the "Ubuntu button" then click
> the second lens along (Applications Lens) or just tap the "Windows (super)
> key" + A and then start typing what you're after. Way more efficient than
> squirrelling through menus IMO.
>
> So to find xchat I do this:-
>
> Super + A, X, enter
>
> For audacity I do:-
>
> Super + A, au, enter
>
> etc.
>
>
> Is there a SysAdmin's walkthrough, of how to return a Unity desktop to
>> full administator's ready functionality ?
>>
>>
> You could install gnome-session-fallback which is a bit like old GNOME 2,
> but not quite identical.
>
>
> Please advize, if you can. ( If not, I'll downgrade, & keep on updating
>> that .. )
>>
>>
> .. and then have the issue again in a while when those older releases stop
> being updated and you have to choose a supported desktop again.
>
> You could try other derivatives like Linux Mint with Cinnamon or Mate, but
> I would question the sustainability of those desktops.
>
>
> When you install KDE, LXDE, XFCE desktops, they take on a kind of Unity
>> cut-down format ..
>>
>>
> I hear Debian is quite nice :)
>
>
> All this is a backwards step - offering less user-friendliness & more
>> system-initiated control ( Ubuntu for dummies ? )
>>
>>
> I use it on all my machines, I guess that makes me a dummy.
>
> Cheers,
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