Thank goodness for Unity

[David Vincent]

On 11-03-05 06:30 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote:

> I got a look at Unity and I must say that I do not understand what the
> developers at Canonical are thinking.  Three things:
>
>    1. Why did they remove the date/time?
>    2. Why did they remove the local weather?
>    3. Why did they not provide a tutorial or even -- god forbid -- a
>       manual for Unity?
>
> The developers seem to be operating under the -- wholly unwarranted --
> assumption that EVERYONE is proficient with the C.L.I.!  Much as I would
> like to upgrade to 11.04 when it is released -- I have heard some
> positive things about Libre Office -- having that Unity G.U.I. turns
> what should be an easy decision into a hard one; and eliminating the
> date/time and local weather is completely unjustified -- it is almost as
> though that they were removed merely for the sake of change.

I suspect that folks who upgrade won't have their Gnome desktop replaced 
with Unity just as GRUB users weren't forced into GRUB2 and ext3 
filesystems weren't upgraded to ext4 etc.

Can anyone confirm that yet? Some quick Google searches can't confirm 
that for me.

I did find this though:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/TechnicalOverview#Unity

There are now three session types available in GDM:

Ubuntu Desktop: it runs Unity. It requires 3D driver support.
Ubuntu Classic Session: it runs GNOME with gnome-panel. It supports all 
video hardware and video drivers.
Ubuntu Classic Session (no effect): it runs GNOME with gnome-panel. It 
is in 2D mode only.

...so what is everyone worried about?

-d