 kleemanAustralian Expat
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Re: Ubuntu's HUD Seems like Shuttleworth is throwing a whole bunch of stuff over the wall at present. Wayland, Unity and HUD. The good thing about open source is that bad ideas get forgotten and good ideas adopted.
Linux is evolution not intelligent design- Torvalds.
The great unwashed open source crowd will pass judgement and I suspect they already have with Unity. My suspicion is that the other two might be more successful.
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 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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I played with HUD more last night. It turns out a quick press-and-release of Alt is what brings it up, while pressing and holding Alt shows the menus.
I'm still not clear and what exactly gets searched, since typing "Preferences" did not in fact bring back any results when I had Firefox open.
Given the difficulty I've had in my limited testing figuring out how it works, I'm really hoping they wait until 12.10 to push this out. It seems like to big a change, with lots of kinks to get right, for an LTS release to adopt.
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Moving Away from Menus: Is Ubuntu's HUD Change We Can Believe In? - by Joe Brockmeier:
The main objection to the HUD is discoverability. I can easily adapt to HUD for functions that I know are supported by an application, but what about functions I'm unaware of?
You can explore the menus for an application and find new (to you) features, but the HUD doesn't support that.
For now, Shuttleworth says that the traditional menus will still be around – but they still need to solve the discoverability problem. |
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I have found 12.04 just unusable with a wireless keyboard.
10.04 was the last useful one for me, and to be honest a unix sys admin with hp-ux solaris aix and linux under my wings, Im done using ubuntu on my desktop and finally just moving to fedora core while it still uses gnome.
I don't have time to play with these new interfaces when I need to get the job done, and taking a week to learn all the quirks of new menus every year aint doing it for me.
First time in 11 years I have actually turned away from ubuntu. All my servers run redhat and I was slowly convincing the folks to let me bring in ubuntu but they are all laughing at the newer ubuntu builds just doesn't fit any more.
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| to correct myself , and ask a question , ubuntu and their new direction don't fit my new view , and I actually almost went to work for them !
lubuntu i guess could be a decent fit. But I miss gnome out of the box.
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said by BosstonesOwn:First time in 11 years I have actually turned away from ubuntu.
As I said earlier - me too. And, I don't think we're isolated cases.
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| dont jump to fast to fedora yet, they have also managed to make even service management a minor headache with systemctl
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
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said by BosstonesOwn:lubuntu i guess could be a decent fit. But I miss gnome out of the box. Gnome Shell ships with Ubuntu by default. Just pick it at the login screen. |
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| yea , but the thing is I run servers which need desktops for some developers, they don't get that choice with the ssh session tool we use. If it just ships with gnome as default then it would load it by default.
I hate having to change around my default configs for it to be the case. Just a quirk with me as I don't want to rewrite my unattended install scripts.
I had almost 100 servers running these , and over 600 running the same config on a mix of rh and centos.
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