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The other day I was saying how much I was not impressed by Unity, the desktop Canonical are planning to replace Gnome with. I have switched the small shiny box back to Gnome because Unity was just making getting anything done too fiddly. It also makes keeping track of what is going on more difficult than it should be, and is some ways is just less usable. You can't even set the clock on the panel — I say panel, but it isn't really a panel any more — to display in 24 hour format. If Ubuntu goes off on the Unity road, I think I won't be going with it.

Current Mood: irritated

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From:

crazyscot

Unity is proving quite controversial - see e.g. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2011-March/016007.html et seq. For at least the time being (meaning Natty - who knows what's happening after that), the gnome desktop remains an option at login ("Classic" session type). As it's built on the Gnome stack, even if ubuntu was to drop the gnome desktop in future, it'll surely remain trivially available.

As at least one person on that list said, I'm not passing judgement on Unity until 11.04 is actually released.

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That's interesting, I had (obviously mis-)understood that the option to use Gnome would not be there by default in Natty. I don't think Unity in Natty is going to be significantly better than in Maverick. I've tried it out for a couple of weeks, and it's not ready for use as a day-to-day desktop. The one thing I like about Unity is the global menu system — i.e. application menus at the top of the screen rather than in the window. Well, I did start out with GUIs other than Windows. :)

If only Unity were available and I had to install another desktop, to be honest I would be tempted by Lxcf rather than Gnome. :)

From:

alexmc.livejournal.com

I'm trying the 1104 beta on a virtual machine under windows. For some reason it thought 12 midday was in fact 00:00 and I spent about five minutes clicking on the clock trying to figure out how to change the time.

But wtf. Move away from Gnome? I say again. wtf. Next you'll be telling me to try KDE...