Here's how I made unity tolerable: - Disabled the extremely annoying (and buggy) dodge feature. Everyone I've installed 11.04 for has complained about it (and often found it confusing), and I personally find it annoying that the bar isn't always visible. Especially when there is a time-consuming transition involved in making it visible. On desktop machines the loss of those few columns is not felt as most machines has widescreen monitors in the first place. On several systems when the bar disappears it also leaves a black rectangle where it was previously located over the windows behind it. (With a very small screen (> 800 columns) auto-hiding might make sense, but the dodge feature is inherently confusing to new users. )
- Setting the back light mode to "Toggles" seems to make a huge difference to a user's ability to intuitively know which programs are running, power user or not. The small arrow is simply not intuitive enough. That's just from my small sample size about about 20 users and the things they found make Unity much more usable. In my opinion, Ubuntu should look into making those settings default. Especially since they are difficult for the average user to change. (They need to install the Compiz settings manager or use gconf-editor.) As always, a little customization can go a long way. Ongoing annoyances: - The poorly designed big-icon menu is not well designed, and will continue to bug me until there is a way to customize it, or until it is redesigned to be more functional and less of a fashion statement. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/648180 Title: Unity is not an adequate replacement for Gnome2 (and sucks a little bit less then it used to) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/648180/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
