It probably will not fit the overall theme of this thread, but after using Unity for a few months now I actually got to like it a lot.
There are two things that helped in the transition:
1. Using the unity-shortcuts wallpaper for the first few weeks, to get a few of the more useful shortcuts into my head
2. Accepting&embracing the concept of changing my ways every now and then; I'm trying to do this anyways for all that pertains to my habits, because there's few things I hate more than people resisting change simply because "they've always been doing it this way"/"they've never been doing things that way"
Actually, after abandoning a few of the long-standing behavioral patterns that were formed by the more classic DEs, I found that Unity offers a few new ways to do things that actually are at least as good/usable as the concepts they replace.
Taking up a specific complaint if Linus: if you want a new shell window in Unity, you Ctrl-mouse click the icon. Simple... plus, the fact that normal-clicking gets you to an already running instance can be useful in a multi-workspace environment, doing away with keyboard or screen edge navigation if one allows a few days to get used to it and exploit the benefits.
I've been talking about Unity, but I'd assume the same applies to Gnome. And I've written this post because most of my business depends on people accepting change (e.g. imposed by my company's system replacing predecessor systems within our customers), which I think is probably true for the majority of people working in the tech industry today. Without change, we'd all be out of jobs sooner than later. So why not give a few things that we ourselves rely on in our daily work opportunities to change and experiment as well, without imposing the "they've always been doing it this way"/"they've never been doing things that way" paradigm that we despise so much when it's coming from our customers?
Which by the way is how selling cars actually works today. Most of the time, basic properties like displacement or rev capacity of an engine do not change between facelift versions of a car, or even between some adjacent engine variants of the same model. What is different is the parametrization of the engine control unit.
The music player that I really love, which doesn't do any of the fancy stuff that players seem to have to do today (some even burn CDs - wtf?), is muine. It's probably not available for OS X, but it does what the title 'music player' implies - it plays music. Without harassing me with stupid views of my music library, but by offering excellent, quick and simple search functionality. It also doesn't bother me with web music stores, or dozends of podcast sources or whatever - it just displays my albums like the real thing (the shelf in my office) does, an alphabetical list of album covers, where I can quickly recognize and chose whatever I feel like, in case I feel more like browsing that searching for something specific. It also doesn't manage iPods, or whatever other music playing device - I don't own any besides my M600i anyways, and I'm well able to copy the stuff I want over on notebooks or USB devices by myself.
Basically, I love muine because it only plays music...
(It's been broken in Ubuntu for a long time, but started to work again out of the box with 8.10)
You know what I don't get about you people (US citizens)? Either ban the stupid fucking things, or quit whining. Either every citizen has one or more firearms at home which "empower" the average Joe Sixpack to kill his fellow citizens with the touch of a finger, without at least a rudimentary idea about the power he is wielding and the responsibility that comes with it, or you just quit whining about your second amendment, shove the guns up the NRA's members a****, and be done with it! Of course, other countries with stricter weapon laws have incidents like that, too - but I would say this is a matter of degree! Allowing everyone to buy and own guns and then complaining when people who crack actually use what they have so easy access to is like complaining that your airbag didn't protect you in an accident because you have an amendment that grants you the right to decide whether you actually wear your seatbelt or not!
My heartfelt condolence for all who lost friends and loved ones, once again.
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It probably will not fit the overall theme of this thread, but after using Unity for a few months now I actually got to like it a lot. There are two things that helped in the transition: 1. Using the unity-shortcuts wallpaper for the first few weeks, to get a few of the more useful shortcuts into my head 2. Accepting&embracing the concept of changing my ways every now and then; I'm trying to do this anyways for all that pertains to my habits, because there's few things I hate more than people resisting change simply because "they've always been doing it this way"/"they've never been doing things that way" Actually, after abandoning a few of the long-standing behavioral patterns that were formed by the more classic DEs, I found that Unity offers a few new ways to do things that actually are at least as good/usable as the concepts they replace. Taking up a specific complaint if Linus: if you want a new shell window in Unity, you Ctrl-mouse click the icon. Simple... plus, the fact that normal-clicking gets you to an already running instance can be useful in a multi-workspace environment, doing away with keyboard or screen edge navigation if one allows a few days to get used to it and exploit the benefits. I've been talking about Unity, but I'd assume the same applies to Gnome. And I've written this post because most of my business depends on people accepting change (e.g. imposed by my company's system replacing predecessor systems within our customers), which I think is probably true for the majority of people working in the tech industry today. Without change, we'd all be out of jobs sooner than later. So why not give a few things that we ourselves rely on in our daily work opportunities to change and experiment as well, without imposing the "they've always been doing it this way"/"they've never been doing things that way" paradigm that we despise so much when it's coming from our customers?
Which by the way is how selling cars actually works today. Most of the time, basic properties like displacement or rev capacity of an engine do not change between facelift versions of a car, or even between some adjacent engine variants of the same model. What is different is the parametrization of the engine control unit.
The music player that I really love, which doesn't do any of the fancy stuff that players seem to have to do today (some even burn CDs - wtf?), is muine. It's probably not available for OS X, but it does what the title 'music player' implies - it plays music. Without harassing me with stupid views of my music library, but by offering excellent, quick and simple search functionality. It also doesn't bother me with web music stores, or dozends of podcast sources or whatever - it just displays my albums like the real thing (the shelf in my office) does, an alphabetical list of album covers, where I can quickly recognize and chose whatever I feel like, in case I feel more like browsing that searching for something specific. It also doesn't manage iPods, or whatever other music playing device - I don't own any besides my M600i anyways, and I'm well able to copy the stuff I want over on notebooks or USB devices by myself. Basically, I love muine because it only plays music... (It's been broken in Ubuntu for a long time, but started to work again out of the box with 8.10)
You know what I don't get about you people (US citizens)? Either ban the stupid fucking things, or quit whining. Either every citizen has one or more firearms at home which "empower" the average Joe Sixpack to kill his fellow citizens with the touch of a finger, without at least a rudimentary idea about the power he is wielding and the responsibility that comes with it, or you just quit whining about your second amendment, shove the guns up the NRA's members a****, and be done with it! Of course, other countries with stricter weapon laws have incidents like that, too - but I would say this is a matter of degree! Allowing everyone to buy and own guns and then complaining when people who crack actually use what they have so easy access to is like complaining that your airbag didn't protect you in an accident because you have an amendment that grants you the right to decide whether you actually wear your seatbelt or not! My heartfelt condolence for all who lost friends and loved ones, once again.
Please tell me (dk.mailbox@gmx.net)how you got it to work with exchange server... does not budge here. Thanks very much Daniel