[ale] ranting about new Ubuntu UI

[Ron Frazier]

I started the original rant 2 days ago.  I was complaining about several 
features I hate of the Unity interface that popped up when I booted a 
Ubuntu 11.04 live CD I'd burned in order to test its integrity.  I only 
worked with it for 20 - 30 minutes, and never installed it.  I didn't 
take time to research how to change the interface.  Considering what you 
said, I wonder if that will get me back to the old Gnome of Ubuntu 
10.04, or a different Gnome.  Also, will it continue to boot with that 
interface or do I have to select it every time I log in?

Sincerely,

Ron

On 6/22/2011 12:54 PM, brock at quantifier.org wrote:
> If I understand right (I didn't read the entire rant, or all of the
> replies), this is just a criticism of the default window manager that
> came with your recent ubuntu instalation?
>
> I saw that one, too, though I thought it was unique to the netbook
> installation.  You can install the gnome desktop by doing:
>
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>
> and then choose gnome at your little splash screen.  I liked that funny
> large icon on the left thing on my little asus, but otherwise, I got rid
> of it.
>
> Or did I misunderstand the rant?
>
> -Robert
>
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>    
>> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:01 -0400, Pat Regan wrote:
>>      
>>> Unity doesn't seem fully baked at this point and Canonical warned
>>> everyone about that ahead of time.
>>>        
>> The thing is that they *know* that a normal release confers some level
>> of implied workability.  This would be the type of thing that they
>> should make *two* releases for: a "technology preview" (hey, sounded
>> like something that'd tickle The Almighty His gherkin) and a normal,
>> stable release that just works out of the box.
>>
>> But even more to the point, even when it's fully baked, it's going to be
>> just like all of Canonical's other software:
>>
>> "We submitted it for consideration in GNOME, they pushed us away"
>>
>> "Could it be because it's crap?"
>>
>> "Nah, man, it's the coolest thing since sliced bread!"
>>
>> Whatever.
>>
>> They have yet to make anything that is truly universally useful, IMHO.
>> for example, they replaced the notifications system that shipped with
>> GNOME with their own thing, and it's unbearable: it puts notifications
>> on the top-right (you don't get to configure it) of a screen (you don't
>> get to pick which one).  Yeah, that's *real* useful.  You know, when I
>> had the ability to choose where my notifications went, I put them on the
>> bottom-right of the screen my eyes spent the most time on.  Why?
>> Because that's where I'd actually *see* the damned things.
>>
>> GNOME has its share of "we'll try to just do the right thing and screw
>> the whole configuration deal", but they at least provide knobs for the
>> important stuff, even if they are buried in some XML file somewhere.
>> Canonical won't even go that far, they've shown that time and time
>> again.  People literally have to fork their shit to make it useful.
>>
>> 	--- Mike
>>
>>      

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