On 30/06/12 11:37, 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,
Hi Alan
Thanx for the good advice
I understand Canonical's committed to Unity, but I still don't hafta
like its seizure of control over the old menu-driven experience
Nonetheless, I'll try keystroking, as you suggest ..
Didn't mean to imply you're a dummy: what I meant, was, that the
experience of Unity, gives me the impression, that I'm being turned into
one !
Search-orientation derives from the browsing experience, which is a step
along the way to Cloud. When that becomes mandatory, I'll give up
computing altogether, as by then I guess I'll have written out all my
books !
Oh - by the way, Ubuntu 12.04's installed on a Mac, so - no Windows key.
Happy days,
Lesz
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