On 02/10/12 16:06, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 02/10/12 11:42, Gordon Scott wrote:
>
>> At this moment, Unity feels a little like Ubuntu
>> threw a grenade into the mix. Yes, I know it's been around a year or
>> so, but I ditched it back then as too profound a change. I'm trying to
>> prepare for what seems presently to be an inevitable change, but at the
>> moment that's feeling a bit of a struggle. I'm still hoping I'll
>> mellow. I like Ubuntu, it's always been relatively painless to work
>> with in the past. Hopefully it will be again.
>>
>
Interesting selective edit. You lost a bit.
Change is something I deal with all the time. Every working day!
I generally enjoy change provided it's manageable.
But I also had a period a few years back when change was so rapid and
profound that eventually we 'slammed on the brakes' and took stock.
What we concluded was that we'd spent four months getting from a system
where mostly everything worked to a system where very little worked
because it had all been broken by the changes on the changes. We'd done
four months very hard work and had simply gone backwards.
Well, OK, I'm probably being over-sensitive at the moment. I'm feeling
pretty stressed for a variety of reasons; I guess still here working now
is one of those. As I said earlier, I'm trying to warm to Unity, but at
present it's being a bit of a royal pain.
Part of the reason I'm facing Unity right now is the smoked laptop I
mentioned. That's forced a new install at very short notice whilst I'm
under a heavy workload. I presume I could still have installed
10.04LTS, but the change will come and this is a chance to try get the
new desktop in an arrangement where I feel I can work comfortable with
it. The Alt- problem last night wound me up quite a long way.
BTW, a big problem with animations is that they're so often in
peripheral vision areas. If like me you wear varifocal glasses, you'll
find that many of those animations are not just a big distraction, but
because of the odd effects of the peripheral distortions can actually
induce motion sickness.
They're also, therefore, _very_ tiring and stressful at the end of a
long day.
Gordon.
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