I guess I'm part of the minority that actually likes the new Unity desktop.
I'm not saying it's perfect, but for the last 10 years or so, no one has addressed the fact that monitors are rectangles, not squares. Anything at the top or bottom of the screen is stealing valuable vertical space, and the menubars need to move to the side. What have Windows and Apple done about this for the last 10 years? Nothing.
Gnome got their nose out of joint when Ubuntu suggested the idea of a Unity-style interface, and now look at their interface. It's almost an exact copy!
Everyone will have a vertical sidebar of some sort within a couple of years. Ubuntu is just making the (semi-painful) transition first.
Please could someone now focus on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard? It would be nice to know where things are supposed to be stored. (/opt or/bin... I don't care, just decide on one location and stick with it!)
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I guess I'm part of the minority that actually likes the new Unity desktop. I'm not saying it's perfect, but for the last 10 years or so, no one has addressed the fact that monitors are rectangles, not squares. Anything at the top or bottom of the screen is stealing valuable vertical space, and the menubars need to move to the side. What have Windows and Apple done about this for the last 10 years? Nothing. Gnome got their nose out of joint when Ubuntu suggested the idea of a Unity-style interface, and now look at their interface. It's almost an exact copy! Everyone will have a vertical sidebar of some sort within a couple of years. Ubuntu is just making the (semi-painful) transition first.
Please could someone now focus on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard? It would be nice to know where things are supposed to be stored. ( /opt or /bin ... I don't care, just decide on one location and stick with it!)