On 30/06/12 20:44, pavithran wrote:
> On 30 June 2012 16:07, Alan Pope <alan.pope@???> wrote:
>> You could try other derivatives like Linux Mint with Cinnamon or Mate, but I
>> would question the sustainability of those desktops.
> Almost the same issue here when I was roaming around desktops and
> landed on Ubuntu 12.04 with unity . Yes its hardly usable, the whole
> copy cat behaviour of unity (from mac) is driving people crazy .
> First it was things on left , next the entire menu goes out of the
> window . Though I dont mind designing for the mobile/handhelds I feel
> this is just not for me .
>
> If you still want to use the default unity , you can try out a nice
> guide on unity by Vancouver ubuntu
> http://frenchfortunecookie.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/unity-5-10-0-final-pdf.pdf
>
> The above guide though was helpful didn't convince me to use unity on
> ubuntu :) I have been using Cinnamon desktop from the linux mint team
> and I am not going back to unity . I agree that the support on
> cinnamon is a question but as long as the linux mint thrives there
> would be cinnamon :)
>
> Review on Cinnamon : Just loved it :) I tried out Gnome3 on debian and
> I liked it . Coming back to ubuntu the simplest way to get a usable
> desktop was to install Cinnamon .
>
> I just added the PPA at
> https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable
> and sudo apt-get install cinnamon was how I got back the control of my
> desktop . It took few minutes to discover cinnamon . There was this
> Cinnamon Settings with which you can get themes and other extensions
> which can be downloaded from http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
>
> Happy to see a downstream project like linuxmint helping out upstream
> :) Well there are also plans to bring it more up aka into the debian
> archives !
>
> Regards,
> Pavithran
Hi Pavi
Good ideas here
Thanx in bunches !
Will certainly have a peek sometime
All the best,
Lesz
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