My request to ubuntu developer team

[R S V Reddy]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:


> > But finally I would say that we are home users,
> > we no more 'no' much of the technology under the tree but take only the
> shadow
> > which we need. So if our tree changes, we feel some pain.
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand this at all. Is it a translated saying
> or aphorism?
>

By mistake, I just wrote 'no', it is in fact 'know'!


> I have noticed that the change from GNOME 2 to Unity does seem to have
> caused many people much pain, yes. Personally I find this hard to
> understand, but then, Unity is much like Mac OS X and I know Macs very
> well, having been a Mac user (as well as a PC and Unix one) since the
> late 1980s. It is hard for me to understand how so many people can be
> so inflexible that a simple rearrangement of their desktop makes them
> hate the new system.
>
> I think that the best thing that could come out of it is lots of new
> users for Xubuntu and Xfce, which is not as sophisticated as GNOME but
> can be made to look and work very much like it.
>
(A few versions ago, the Xubuntu desktop looked almost exactly like
> GNOME, with the same panels in the same places. Sadly, it no longer
> does, so migrants from GNOME have some work to do as soon as they
> start using it, rearranging it to the way that they want.)
>
> Some will go to GNOME 3 running in Fallback Mode, but I think that
> will disappear in a release or two, maybe in GNOME 3.4 next April. I
> have read a news story about increasing 2D support in GNOME Shell, but
> I can't find it now. Once GNOME Shell can run without 3D acceleration
> (as Unity-2D does) then I think Fallback Mode will disappear.
>
> So unless the Unity-to-GNOME-3 migrants decide they like GNOME Shell -
> unlikely, if they hate Unity that much - then even they might well end
> up on Xfce, I suspect.
>

Yeah I agree, but since the Gnome users are using it since when they are
using Ubuntu (true, for at least me), so they have fallen in love with it
(at least me). On the contrary, this declaration never implies that Unity
is bad or not good. As I commented (regarding Unity problems, earlier in
some post, I guess..), since I heard some people crying for that....,
that's all! But if in case, if there were an option to choose either from
Unity or Gnome, I bet I would have gone with Gnome. Though this has little
impact (little impact even on home users, house wives, kids, etc..etc..),
but as said earlier, the thing was that Long Term Support should be intact,
other versions (like 11.04) is good to play with or 'ready for sudden
changes'; however, at the same time, I agree that it is just 'long term
support' and this 'long term' has inevitably an end, like any other thing.

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