[ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....

[Alan Bell]

On 23/03/12 20:16, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> <soap box>
> Treating users as idiots is not a policy, it's a mistake.
> As soon as I find a distribution worth installing everywhere, I'll be
> switching. Mint doesn't cut the mustard. I'm a Kubuntu/Lubuntu user on
> desktop and Ubuntu server  but I don't want to anymore, I don't want
> to have anything with Ubuntu products.
>
> I know the PR spin, "it's to make new users' life easy" yada yada
> yada. But the new users don't discover Linux all by themselves, in
> most cases someone shows them and I don't want to show and talk about
> Ubuntu to anyone anymore.
> </soap box>
>
ok, well as long as you are still using Free Software it is all good. 
The dodge thing was something Mark Shuttleworth really liked too, but 
when they did lots of user testing and watched the videos of people 
being confused by it they dropped the concept.
there is more about the decision here
https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/msg07835.html

Alan

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