[SGVLUG] Unity

[Christopher Smith]

Give it time... ;-)

It didn't strike me as absolutely horrible until I'd used it for a
day. The scrollbar stuff is annoying, the whole "one process per
button" thing was annoying, etc., etc.

I could see where it has some similar UI elements to a typical tiling
window manager, and it definitely tries to use screen real estate
efficiently. Honestly though, for a typical screen it saves you maybe
1% of the pixels (on a good day), and pays it back with some real
annoying usability issues.

Here's hoping it works for you. Unity would be mildly tolerable if I
believed it proved to make a lot of users happy.

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
>
> I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, and frankly I can't
> understand the negative reaction to it.  It is in my mind superior to the
> traditional Gnome desktop.  Perhaps it is because I've been using a tiling
> window manager for years and am not overly attached to a "traditional"
> windowing environment.
>
> Unity makes excellent use of screen real-estate.  I can sling a terminal
> to the top and get a real full screen console minus the small menu bar.  I
> can sling a browser to the left side of the screen and it Aero-snaps to the
> left half for easy side-by-side use, my usual tiling mode.  The attractive
> launcher on the left stays out of my way unless I need it, and lets me
> navigate applications and search in a far easier way than the damn Win95
> start menu clone in Gnome 2.
>
> This is an environment that could replace Awesome WM for me.

-- 
Chris