[ale] ranting about new Ubuntu UI

[Scott Castaline]

On 06/20/2011 07:49 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Flame away!  I think there's been a huge influx of ego and an exodus 
> of smarts in the interface design of both fedora 15 gnome3 and Ubuntu 
> unity. By all means, flame on and hope the devs read it and weep and 
> make a better ui for next major release.
> I'm not sure they could do worse.
>
I'll drink to that! I'm on KDE on my way to LXDE before I go Nutzo, 
although my wife says I already am:-(
> On Jun 20, 2011 7:21 PM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us 
> <mailto:mike at trausch.us>> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 18:38 -0400, Collin Pruitt wrote:
> >> But, due to our focus on creating a "clean and easy to
> >> use experience", we did it anyway. Honestly, I despise Unity. It's a
> >> pain to use, as you figured out. Another thing is the existence of
> >> GNOME Shell. I can't understand why the high-ups at Canonical feel
> >> it's a good idea to waste our resources on developing our own UI when
> >> we could just as easily use GNOME's and not fracture the desktop UI
> >> scene even more, and when there are far bigger issues in the user
> >> experience with Ubuntu than the User Interface is concerned.
> >
> > Because it tickles Shuttleworth's... something or another. I probably
> > can't say it on the list without getting temporarily censored.
> >
> > --- Mike
> >
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