On 01/07/12 09:56, Chris Liddell wrote:
> A bit late to this discussion, but never mind.....
>
> I gave up on Unity *very* quickly..... it took me a good (bad!) fifteen
> minutes to find how to get a terminal window up, and I concluded it was
> not for me, at all - I switched to Xfce for now. I may go back to Debian
> next time I have to setup a machine.
>
> This is Unix, for heaven's sake, how can a terminal window *not* be
> available right there, "front and centre"?
>
> I very much feel there is a trend in interface design to favour the
> new/occasional user, even when it will inconvenience the experienced
> "power user". In truth I have no problem with interfaces being made
> easier to drive for the less experienced user, but why does it have to
> get in the way of me (as an experienced user) going about things they
> way I want to?
>
> Unity and Gnome3 (I haven't tried KDE in years) both seem to want to
> impose a way of working on me, and that's a big reason I wanted to get
> away from Windows - I want to tell the computer how to work, not have
> the computer tell me how to work!
>
> I wonder if we'll see an upsurge in "power users" using plain old window
> managers, instead of the full "desktop experience" GUIs....
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 30/06/12 11:09, Leszek Kobiernicki 1 wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I've been struggling with Unity/Ubuntu 12.04 on a Mac
>>
>> Desktop seems a good deal less usable than in the pre-Unity days
>>
>> On 10.04.x, you can access every single app cumulatively installed, everof other
>> so easily
>>
>> Is there a SysAdmin's walkthrough, of how to return a Unity desktop to
>> full administator's ready functionality ?
>>
>> Please advize, if you can. ( If not, I'll downgrade, & keep on updating
>> that .. )
>>
>> When you install KDE, LXDE, XFCE desktops, they take on a kind of Unity
>> cut-down format ..
>>
>> Instead of giving you a bootup choice of desktop, the system
>> auto-defaults to the latest installed desktop
>>
>> All this is a backwards step - offering less user-friendliness & more
>> system-initiated control ( Ubuntu for dummies ? )
>>
>> thanx,
>>
>> Lesz
>>
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If you'd been at Popey's demo of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at the Surrey meet in
Addlestone, Chris, you might have been converted to Unity - as were a
lot us.
E.g. I get an instant Terminal window on this PC by pressing < win + 6 >
- that's just two keys, together.
Using the search key (top of the icons), three letters finds a program
thanks to predictive text.
I'm no 'power user' but it all seems pretty good to me.
And compared to my previous MS experience of about 17 frustrating years,
this is computer heaven.
(Thank you Desmond.)
Tony Wood
(from PC)
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