Brief thoughts on Unity

[chris]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 13:50 -0700, Ernest Doub wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Stephen Kuhn <yank.down.under at gmx.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 20:19 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
> >
> >> Having persevered with Unity I am now OK with it, although I do have a
> >> few issue with it.
> >>
> >> There is quite a bit of configuration that you can do, and there are
> >> lots of keyboard short cuts which make for slick operating.
> >> Unfortunately, it is not well documented yet, but there are discussions
> >> about how to tackle that problem.
> >>
> >> Here are some links that may help you to understand Unity better,
> >
> > Regardless of the "how to's" and "FAQ's" and shortcuts and this and that
> > and yadda yadda yadda, it's a shiite interface, non-intuitive, NOT
> > oriented for "Desktop multitasking"...so it doesn't matter. It was MEANT
> > FOR A NETBOOK and looks like a mobile phone interface. They can document
> > the daylights out of it and give the buttons more sparkle and yadda
> > yadda yadda, it's still going to be crap. You can put as many strings of
> > pearls on a pig as you want, but it's still a bloody pig, end of story.
> >
> > I can only sum up that both Unity and Gnome-Shell are insults that have
> > been thrown at experienced desktop-linux users; they're insults to the
> > intelligence and competency of those of us that have been around long
> > enough, and more than proof in the putting that the "higher ups" and
> > developers could care less about those of us "in the trenches".
> >
> > MY $0.20 AUD (which is about, um, what, $0.30 USD now?) ;)
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> 
> At this point I have to throw my $1US (the current amount required to
> buy what 2 centsUS used to purchase) into the Unity discussion.
> It is /not/ user friendly for those of us with manipulative
> disabilities.  Multi-key shortcuts are great if you have young supple
> hands.  If you are older and have arthritic hands, or as in my case,
> have both wrist and shoulder injuries limiting mobility of these
> joints (thanks to a trucking accident caused by a drunk driver) it
> doesn't work as well as the previous release.
> This release should be called kinder-buntu as it is still in
> primary/grammar school.
> All of the documentation is just wonderful but still doesn't address
> the problems of not being able to access a lot of functionality with
> context related right clicks.
> I would suggest that you perform some time and motion studies on the
> differences in productivity are between Gnome and Unity desktops for
> most common tasks.  These will provide the most information if they
> are done with windows users given the same amount of training time on
> each desktop before doing the studies.
> As has been said before, if I wanted a netbook/tablet/smartphone I'd
> be using one of those plugged into my full sized keyboard and monitor.
>  I don't.  I want all of the features, speed, and convenience that a
> fully developed desktop provides.  I say this as someone who used and
> Android 2.2 tablet for mobile access.  My primary use is as a book
> reader.  I do use it for web access away from my desktop but it is
> only a tool with limited capabilities.  Please don't try to push a
> viable alternative to windows into a small box.  It is not a good fit
> and will force people to look for other solutions than Ubuntu.
> 
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> of tyrants and Patriots" - Thomas Jefferson
> 

well put