I am starting to dislike Unity also now. It is not configurable enough.
For example, if you don't like the hidden menus, there should be a
setting to show them. Similar to the "auto hide" option on GNOME 2.
It should be easier to switch off features, like the dash amazon, but
on a global basis, so that when I add a new user, I don't have to go
in and switch off feature xyz again. If all I want is gedit, I don't
want it asking Amazon about it.
On 9 November 2012 07:27, Benjie Gillam <benjie@???> wrote:
> A few more data points:
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> My parents and uncle both find it confusing still after using it for a year. The invisible menus are the biggest issue for them.
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> My wife who is a programmer (so a little more tech savvy ;) dislikes it and finds the window grouping to be annoying/frustrating and the tray indicators to be buggy - especially with LibreOffice.
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> I don't find it confusing but I prefer GNOME 2 considerably and dislike the left hand tray (on widescreen you have to move your mouse further too!). I also find it's considerably slows me down, and the extra space produced doesn't seem necessary on my 2560x1440 monitor. I now use Mac primarily, despite having been using Linux almost exclusively since 2000 (when I was 14).
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> I've not heard anyone IRL singing it's praises, unlike GNOME 2.
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> On 8 Nov 2012, at 22:37, Gordon Scott <gordon@???> wrote:
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>> It isn't just me.
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>> I've been trying to warm to Unity and had pretty much given up.
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>> I'd set-up my wife's account in Unity to see how a less computer-savvy person gets on with the interface.
>> She does just mail, web, and very occasional WP, so nothing special.
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>> Today she rebelled and declared it 'stupid'.
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>> For her also, menus on the screen top-bar were so counter-intuitive that she thought they'd been removed.
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>> So now, for the moment at least, we've both reverted to Gnome.
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>> Personally I'll likely now switch to an fvwm set-up, which I always preferred, only having changed to Gnome to 'go with the flow'.
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>> Sorry Alan, but we both strongly dislike Unity.
>>
>> Gordon.
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