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Originally posted by Delgarde View PostMost of us understand that. However, Unity in the current netbook form is a usability nightmare, a major regression over the previous netbook edition. It doesn't inspire a lot of faith in their plans to apply the same broad concepts to the larger desktop.
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Originally posted by brent View PostI can't say much about Unity, but in my experience Compiz clearly is still superior when it comes to performance, driver compatibility and reliability. Mutter developers have been promising improvements for a long time, but we've yet to see it perform as well as Compiz.
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Originally posted by KAMiKAZOW View PostUnity 11.04 will require accelerated OpenGL: http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2010/10/...ut-one-of.html
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Originally posted by benmoran View PostI disagree. The new notification system is one of my favorite parts of the desktop. From a users perspective it's polished, clean and consistent. It doesn't have interactive elements, but I don't miss those.
Ubuntu's Gnome desktop is way better than vanilla Gnome.
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Originally posted by benmoran View PostI disagree. The new notification system is one of my favorite parts of the desktop. From a users perspective it's polished, clean and consistent. It doesn't have interactive elements, but I don't miss those.
1. it's not dismissable - this is obvious, especially when something is as obtrusive as these bubbles popping up in front of my work - G-S has a better solution
2. it doesn't distinguish between things of high and low priority - I've been using Ubuntu for the on and off since around Gibbon but consistently for the last two releases (though I'm probably switching to Fedora when it's released) and I can't tell the difference between system notifications and app notifications - G-S fixes this
3. it doesn't theme well - the damned thing is always translucent black - G-S allows easy theming with CSS
Gnome Shell has 2 different notifications, but the one we see most often, hopefully, is app stuff. It animates a nice little icon with message at the bottom of the screen. Now you can either make it go away immediately or ignore it. If you do the later it disappears and in the app notification area at the bottom of the screen (off screen unless you mouse down to the bottom of the screen) the unanswered notifications build up so you can see if you missed something. The system notification is being worked on. Check-out Planet Gnome currently to see ideas he has.
Ubuntu has done some good things, but this just isn't one of them. Many things are open for opinion but notifications that irretrievably disappear or that you can't dismiss? That is simply a bad thing. If you don't believe me, Google "notify-osd".
Honestly, what;s worse is that I can't change it out for notification-daemon. I disabled notify-osd in dbus directory, but that didn't do a thing.
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Originally posted by virtualspectre8 View PostA computer desktop without Notify-OSD feels obsolete in my eyes. I can't live without those bubbles telling me someone just tweeted something, or someone posted something at facebook or a new post on Google Reader just arrived.
Ubuntu's Gnome desktop is way better than vanilla Gnome.
Jhbuild gnome-shell to see for your self. There are several branches. Currently I'm using overview-relayout2 which has begun the process of implementing the gui changes that have been talked about for awhile now (for those of you worried that nothing was happening -- the devs have been building the tools along with the house -- the decorating comes last).
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostAbout the only positive direct benefit being expressed right now is that Ubuntu's Unity interface may be better than the GNOME Shell for those with pen or touch-screen interfaces...
It's too difficult click on a icon. My girlfriend and my mother have problems clicking the icons because if you move only a pixel when you try to click in an icon, the dock "thinks" that you want to move the icon but with the laptops and the touchpad it's very easy to move the mouse a "bit" while you press the left button or touch the pad to launch an application.
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A fallback after Hardware Acceleration? Good Luck!
Originally posted by mendieta View PostAre you sure about that? I would assume the desktop will default to something usable with no 3D accel.
Anyways, I am not so surprised about this, and I really think a simple, consistent interface may be a good thing. Android did that: a simple API on top of the kernel, easy to write apps ... and it has exploded!
I kind of wish for a simple interface where you can run GNOME apps, KDE apps, etc, and have them doc properly, etc.
My question is why did Ubuntu choose to make their own? KDE would have made a nice base, or they could have not even gone that extreme and used QT as the toolkit and gone and gone weird with their DE anyway. Which would have clearly been better than this.
OpenSuSe, here I come!
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