What I am talking about here is SWITCHING and MANAGING applications, not OPENING applications. In Shell I just need ONE CLICK to manage ALL OF MY 9 WINDOWS.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Evan Huus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Phong Cao <[email protected]> wrote: > > About Unity & Gnome Shell... none of them is better than the other. It > > depends on the users. > > I am the kind of user that never open less than 5 windows at a time. > > > > As I explained above: > > 1. Try to open 3 maximized windows of Chrome, 3 maximized windows of > > LibreOffice, 2 Terminal windows and 1 Nautilus window. > > 2. Now switch between the windows of different applications. You can > easily > > see that: > > - In Gnome Shell: I hover the mouse to the top-left, which takes almost 1 > > second. Then all 9 windows are shown on the screen for me to choose from. > > This makes things simple and easier. > > - In Unity: > > + The best way to switch between applications in Unity is using the > > keyboard. > > + Other than that, I will have to hover the mouse to the left and then > > "guess" "Where is my Chrome/Terminal/LibreOffice icon?" to click on. > > + This causes lots of confusion and time consuming since everytime I want > to > > switch between DIFFERENT applications I have to "guess" the icon position > > again. > > + This should not be a problem if you keep the left panel always visible. > > However, Gnome Shell does not sacrifice any horizontal screen space and > > still achieve the result I need. > > There is perhaps a design flaw in Unity that this feature is not more > discoverable, but if you move your mouse to the top-left corner then > the launcher appears on top so you don't have to guess. This makes the > process almost identical to that of Gnome Shell: > > 1) Move mouse to top left > 2) Pick application/window > > regardless of whether you're using Unity or shell. > > > Lastly, please do not use the age of Unity as an excuse. I am tired of > > people saying that "Because Unity is just ... months old and Gnome Shell > has > > been.... decades old so Gnome Shell is better". > > Gnome Shell will always be older than Unity and Unity will always use > this > > statement as an excuse for its weaknesses. Unity will hardly improve if > its > > developers use age to say it is better or worse than Shell. > > Weaknesses do not come from age. They come from the design philosophy of > the > > developers. > > If the philosophy is wrong from the start and left unchanged, Unity will > > hardly gets any better regardless of its age. > > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Shane Fagan < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Phong Cao <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I am too have been for a long time a Ubuntu's fan. However, I am not > >> > trying > >> > to be negative but... I would say that Unity's design is way far > behind > >> > GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. I recommend anybody in this email list try > out > >> > Fedora 15 & GNOME Shell and learn from their simplicity. (Just my > >> > thought, > >> > no offense). After couple days get along with Fedora 15 & GNOME Shell > I > >> > feel > >> > that GNOME Shell is more newbie-friendly and productive than Unity. I > >> > think > >> > Ubuntu should reconsider going back to GNOME... > >> > >> Ok im not being negative or anything but both emails you put in on > >> this thread haven't explained why you think shell is better. > >> Also it has to be said that Unity (compiz) isn't around very long > >> compared to Shell since it was made for 3 years and all and > >> Unity compiz anyway is only 6 months of work ish. The reason why im > >> mentioning that is there are still many many changes > >> and iterations to come for Unity in which it will get better. What you > >> can bank on though is Unity is faster and more stable. > >> > >> The cool things about Shell are the really nice looking animations on > >> things there is a lot of nice finishes on everything and > >> that stuff comes with time. In terms of Unity and why it is better is > >> the simplicity you can do a lot more with the search in the > >> dash than you can with Shell and the sky is the limit on lenses and > >> all that nice stuff. > >> > >> --fagan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > >
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