GUI in 10.10?

[Colin Law]

On 12 October 2010 17:15, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 10/12/2010 3:45 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 12 October 2010 05:26, Doug<dmcgarrett at optonline.net>  wrote:
>>> Is the upgrade going to change my GUI? If so, how?
>>> (Most likely, if it does, I won't.)
>>
>> What aspects of the GUI are you asking about?  Do you mean the Ubuntu
>> themes or the desktop menus or specific applications or what?
>>
>> Also it is difficult to say what changes you may see if we don't know
>> which version you are contemplating upgrading from?
>>
>> I suggest you download the cd image, burn it and boot off it.  You can
>> then try 10.10 without affecting your PC setup (it will be slow of
>> course running of CD).
>>
>> Colin
>>
> I suppose that this is the logical approach.  Specifically, I have
> 10.04.1.  I have taken advantage of the opportunity to right-click
> on menu items and move them to the desk-top as icons, ala Windows,
> and I have followed the various directions to get the full-size,
> shrink-size, and store in systray dinguses moved from upper left of
> the window to upper right, where they belong, and I have made the
> thing work on single-click, as most other Linuxes do, and as I
> have made Windows (XP and 7) do.  If any of that doesn't work anymore, I
> don't want the upgrade.  Perhaps someone knows, and will post the
> results.  If I have to find out the hard way, _I_ will post the results.

As I suggested you can boot of the install CD and try 10.10 without
affecting your existing system.  Then you can try those things and see
whether all is well.

Colin