On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 07:23, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Re Unity and Ubuntu, as far as I know - pretty certain actually...but I may have misread what was stated - is that come Ubuntu 11.10 (in six months time) there will not be any trace of gnome - it'll be all Unity.
It's still Gnome-based underneath tho, so any gtk+ based app will work as normal. You could technically do the same with qt4 and have a new DE that isn't KDE4 but runs all qt4 programs for KDE4 natively.
I haven't had a chance to check out the Unity shell, but since I'm not much on Gnome or KDE4, I have doubts about my liking it.
Unity will probably be really nice on a tablet computer... or a smart phone, and possibly small format netbooks and/or media center PCs. For desktop use, I find it very awkward and annoying. Someone who looks at their computer as an appliance and never changes the default settings will probably be OK with it, but many/most experienced users are unlikely to like the changes. The desktop configuration is limited and missing key parts (in my opinion). Unity is well suited to running a single application full screen, but if you're used to having multiple apps open at the same time, and not working with maximized apps... it fails pretty spectacularly. Granted, I think this could be tweaked and fixed, but it's not possible in the 11.04 time frame. Maybe it'll get better with age as KDE4 has... but... I don't think it'll be pretty over in the Ubuntu world when they release Unity and 11.04 :-( There have been statements and conjecture that with 11.10, there will be no official support for the Gnome 2 shell - in 11.04, it's reasonably easy to switch to Gnome2... but apparently... if the forum murmuring is right, it won't be easy at all to switch Unity off from 11.10 onward. C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org