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

[Darcy Casselman]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, George Standish
<george.standish at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't found the direct quote, or where I originally saw reference to it
> but the following article certainly alludes to it :
>
> http://www.linuxconfig.net/index.php/latest-linux-news/world/720-shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-11-04-linux-unity-zdnet-%28blog%29.html
>
> "Is Unity too simple for power users? Yes, it is. But, as Shuttleworth tells
> us that’s by design. If you don’t like simple, consumer-oriented desktops,
> you’ll want to look at another Linux distribution because that’s exactly
> where Ubuntu is now and will continue to go."

That's the view of the article's writer, not Mark Shuttleworth.

Personally, I think there's some nice emergent complexity in Unity.
It doesn't get in the way of new users, but it's there if you really
want to get into it.

>> "That does not mean that we're going to abandon, in any way, shape or
>> form, a developer community. I'm a developer. You're all developers.
>
> Well, I'm not personally a developer...

The above quote is from Mark Shuttleworth at UDS, transcribed by me
from the video link I posted. Ubuntu Developer Summit participants are
(mostly) developers.

Darcy