Unity and 11.04 (I know -- yawn -- another opinion)

[George Standish]

On 15/05/11 08:52 AM, Russell McOrmond wrote:

>    Without any way to configure and disable certain features in Unity,
> after two hours I set the machine to default to the classic (Gnome)
> interface and don't expect I'll be checking it out again until people
> say it is configurable.

I believe the lack of configuration is an intentional "feature", though 
I'd call it an "anti-feature".

>    The launcher I could live with, and if I used it I might come to
> like it -- that seems comparatively intuitive.  But what Unity does
> with the File/etc menus is a bit of a show-stopper for me that I don't
> think I'm interested in getting used to.

I believe you are referring to the "global menu."

Regarding Unity, I am surprised at how many users are advocating that 
people "give it a fair shot" or "use it for more then 10 minutes", 
suggesting that people should just "get used to it".

>    I hope that Ubuntu plans to actively maintain the "classic"
> interface.  I would hate to see "Unity" become the thing that divides
> the community, and pushed people like me to move to another
> distribution.

This will be the last version with a "classic" option, 11.10 will have 
Unity and Unity 2d.

Unity was the motivating factor for my dropping Ubuntu and finding a 
replacement distro a short time ago.  I now see the advantages of a 
community based GNU/Linux distribution vs. one controlled by a company 
(which must juggle several, often opposing, interest).

I read that Mark S. suggested that advanced users should simply leave 
Ubuntu and find another distribution.  So that 200 million users goal 
Mark stated at UDS does not include so called "power users."

Good luck Russell,

George

PS. the current copyright assignment issue with Canonical should cause 
some concern for anyone doing development work for Ubuntu