I reverted to KDE. I have 4.8.5 from Ubuntu 12.10 LTS.
It is stable and fast now, and works fine with or without desktop effects
(while Unity 2D is a disaster!).
I know it was always more been complex, but now it's also very intuitive
and straight-forward at a basic level.
Check-out the option now for taskbar icons (like W7 or Unity). You can
also customize the task switcher for best 2D appearance.
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Paul Tansom <paul@???> wrote:
> ** john lewis <zen57162@???> [2012-11-09 10:27]:
> > On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:37:24 +0000
> > Gordon Scott <gordon@???> wrote:
> >
> > > So now, for the moment at least, we've both reverted to Gnome.
> > >
> > > 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'.
> >
> > I am trying Enlightenment (e18) on my laptop, an ancient Compaq Evo N160
> > and it works quite well. It is easily configurable and I feel quite at
> > home with it as left-button clicking on the desktop pops up the menu, a
> > bit like windowmaker did.
> >
> > I have added various apps to the single 'Shelf' which sits at bottom
> > of screen and have set it up with 6 'desktops' so can run each app in
> > its own workspace. Just as I like it ;-)
> >
> > Worth a try
> ** end quote [john lewis]
>
> That takes me back a bit, I used Enlightenment back in 2000/1 (E16 iirc).
> Initially it was under Gnome, but after a while I dropped the overhead of
> Gnome as I realised I wasn't making use of anything it provided and really
> didn't miss it - I liked the middle click menu and still sometimes check
> for it!
>
> With the release of 12.10 I've abandoned Unity on my netbook. I've stuck
> with it since the start, but the performance on my netbook is too poor - I
> can see the four stages of shade when a menu comes up with a pause in
> between and a long pause before they start!! I am now back to XFCE which I
> left behind when I switched to Ubuntu in the first place - largely to go
> with the flow.
>
> I suspect my desktop is likely to be abandoning Unity too, although I've
> not tried 12.10 on it yet. Unity really doesn't do dual monitors well and
> bugs seem to come and go with each update - for a while I lost dual screens
> altogether (which only worked in the first place with a manual fix). The
> bug I've reported with the mouse jumping to the wrong side of the screen
> when you switch screens still hasn't been fixed, and has in fact got worse
> as I used to be able to avoid it by not hiding the dash. It also now
> doesn't drag and drop properly, when I drag an icon the mouse shows on the
> correct screen and the icon shows one screen left meaning it is impossible
> to drag files around in Nautilus for example. This may be related to my
> graphics driver perhaps, but the bug report has people with nVidia as well
> as my AMD cards suffering. I've not upgraded yet, partly because I want to
> do a clean install, and partly because the upgrade tells me my hardware may
> not be fully supported and I just don't want the hassle at the moment - I
> fear the worst as 2D has been abandoned (or merged) and my cards fail to
> run in 3D always defaulting back to 2D in spite of being plenty powerful
> enough to cope if the software supported them.
>
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