Ubuntu usability is significantly decreased with Unity

[Kevin Hunter]

At 7:04am -0500 Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Jo-erlend Schinstad wrote:
> That is a very good reason to keep configuration options at a
> minimum, at least temporarily. Currently, most configuration tools
> require a lot of knowledge about the system. It is not immediately
> obvious that enabling focus follows mouse will make it nearly
> impossible to use the mouse to access menus. That kind of
> configuration makes things unnecessarily complicated. We need to
> thoroughly understand how each config option affects other options.
> There are several examples in Nautilus, for instance. It's quite
> possible to configure your system to become almost unusable.

Yikes!  I personally hope that this feature does /not/ go away.  I've 
come to (very much) appreciate the focus-follows-mouse feature; 
similarly, I've fine-tuned almost 10 installations of Windows to do this 
for some friends who asked if they could get that feature after 
shoulder-surfing me.  I do see that it wouldn't play nice with the 
global menu, but I'd hope there's room for compromise.

With respect to the controversial topic of Unity, I'll say no more on 
this subject; I've been staying out of any conversation in regards to 
Unity because I've only used it vicariously through my advisor (I'm yet 
on 10.10).

Kevin