5 Out Of 11 Participants Crashed Unity In Canonical’s Study
Liam Proven
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Liam Proven
> http://digitizor.com/2011/04/15/crashed-unity-canonical-study/
Oops, sorry - didn't see that DG had already posted this.
David Gerard
> On 16 April 2011 15:36, Liam Proven <lpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://digitizor.com/2011/04/15/crashed-unity-canonical-study/
> Oops, sorry - didn't see that DG had already posted this.
Matthew Thomas' original mailing message was most acerb, in his usual
fashion. I get the feeling he is less than impressed with the
realisation of Unity.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html
- d.
Liam Proven
> On 16 April 2011 15:55, Liam Proven <lpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 April 2011 15:36, Liam Proven <lpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> http://digitizor.com/2011/04/15/crashed-unity-canonical-study/
>
>> Oops, sorry - didn't see that DG had already posted this.
>
>
> Matthew Thomas' original mailing message was most acerb, in his usual
> fashion. I get the feeling he is less than impressed with the
> realisation of Unity.
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html
Yes, I saw that from your earlier message. Not impressive, but then, I
suspect a lot of long-time Windows users would be all at sea on a Mac,
too. I've seen it happen. Sadly, to many people now, computers =
Windows.
I am not sure the OS X Dock is hugely intuitive. After a few seconds'
clicking, I worked out how to open a 2nd terminal window or Firefox
window in the Unity NotADock™. UNAD. I like that. I hereby move that
it is named the "Unad."
I am actually kinda looking forward to it, in an odd way. I've finally
given up on vertical panels in GNOME - my combination of a vertical
launcher panel and ADeskBar was fairly stable in 10.04, but it had
snags: the GNOME clock just stopped sometimes, and the panel would
regularly become unresponsive and need to be clicked on/clicked off
(i.e. on the background) and then clicked on again to operate
controls.
But in 10.10, it's worse. Every morning, my left-hand panel has
randomly moved itself into the middle of the screen; I have to
right-click a hide button, click Expand, at which point it snaps back
to the left edge, then untick Expand again to put it back where it
belongs.
I also discovered that right-clicking an icon in the ADeskBar program
switcher and picking "close" /always/ closes the wrong window. I can't
work out the pattern but it's always a different window than the one
selected.
So I've given up and reset to default panels - I put the top one at
the bottom of my left monitor and the bottom one at the bottom of my
right monitor. Works for me. Not ideal, but works.
I am quite liking the idea of a single left-side Unad. I'll just try
to learn how to work it. At present I can't work out how to reliably
unhide it, or come to that, how to stop it hiding.
And I /really/ miss my programs menu. All-in-one-place or search is
/not/ a good replacement. Categorisation is very useful as a way to
reduce complexity.
What I don't much like is the Amiga-style menu bar. (I.e., top of the
screen, like a Mac, but hidden by default, like an Amiga.) Worst of
both worlds.
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Paul Sladen
> Matthew Thomas' original .. acerb, ... I get the feeling he is ...
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html
In Ubuntu we have the openness and honesty to *do* this kind of
testing (and do not hide the results). We have the openness and
honesty to have publicly accessible bug reports. We have the openness
and honesty to discuss issues on mailing lists.
Starting with facts gives the *possibility* of having informed debate.
Instead of guessing, why not just take the results as factual and at
face value? They are the input that enables fixing bugs.
-Paul
David Gerard
> In Ubuntu we have the openness and honesty to *do* this kind of
> testing (and do not hide the results). We have the openness and
> honesty to have publicly accessible bug reports. We have the openness
> and honesty to discuss issues on mailing lists.
This is true, though not directly relevant as a response.
> Starting with facts gives the *possibility* of having informed debate.
> Instead of guessing, why not just take the results as factual and at
> face value? They are the input that enables fixing bugs.
This appears contentless.
Following a true statement with a contentless one does not actually
say anything.
- d.