What I love about Unity

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 23:03 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> Den 30. des. 2011 20:30, skrev Ted Gould:
> > Thanks for writing this up.  I appreciate it.  We're never perfect, but
> > it's nice to see some positive reviews every once in a while :-)
>
> It was not meant as a positive review and I don't want it to be 
> understood as such. 

Sure, it wasn't a review really.  I guess it should have read "noting
some of the positive aspects."  Though, in general, I was less careful
with my words since I wasn't replying to the mailing list ;-)

> The point was to separate between what users see and 
> what programs see and why that's important. The ultimate goal for me, is 
> to teach everyone that there are no fundamental differences between 
> 10.04 and 12.04.
<snip>

In general, you are correct, but I think your language there might hurt
your argument.  I think that, for most people, it seems drastically
different because the data is presented in a different way, but it is
fundamentally the same data.  So instead of saying "nothing changed" it
might be easier to say "only the emphasis changed."

As an example we could look at the use case of finding applications.
You can still browse for the applications in groups like you could in
the Applications menu of 10.04.  But, it's not as handy.  On the flip
side searching them is much, much, easier.  So we've switched the
emphasis from browsing to searching.

		--Ted

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