I hated it

Post #367,187 by crazy 12/3/12 10:58:26 PM 12/3/12 11:02:24 PM Reply	I hated it I hated it I despised it. I refused to use it. I've been using KDE then Gnome for years, and been quite happy, Unity sucked. When I installed a new Gnome system, I'd install enough kde libs to get konsole going. I had a bunch of stuff like that. Then my primary computer died. And the backup system was the test Unity system. Fuck it. I got all my production stuff going, made sure my files were ok, and then sat down and slowly, carefully, read the Unity docs. And tried stuff. And found out I really like it. I simply never gave it a try. I tried to work my default way that I had evolved in the previous ones. They were rip-offs of Win95, so it was all comfortable. Unity is different. Edited by crazy Dec. 3, 2012, 11:02:24 PM EST Expand All History
Post #367,199 by static 12/4/12 7:14:13 AM Reply	I thought I went in with an open mind. One thing I actually genuinely do not like is the "grouping". So Firefox has two windows open? Click on the Firefox icon - now select which one you want. :-/ No. Fail. Give me a icon for each of them, please! I hated this when Windows did it (fortunately I can turn it off there) and so I dislike Unity doing it, too. OTOH, apps I use tend to group their sub-windows their own way: Opera's tabs, GNU screen. LibreOffice would be the exception here. That aside, the PC in question is a Latitude XT. So yes, it is a touch-screen PC. This is the part of the reason I want to put the dock on the right (I'm right handed). Also because WindowMaker puts that sort of shit on the right and so I'm used to that. I guess I'll keep persisting. Haven't tried KDE yet. Or XFCE on the touchscreen. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #367,221 by crazy 12/4/12 11:37:07 AM Reply	You probably did It truly sucks for waving your arm around, but then again, so does everything else. But on a PC with a very sensitive large track ball it is great. I did not like the window grouping either, for a bit, but as drook pointed out, it's been training me for it's setup, rather than me forcing it to do the old way. I like alt-tab to move between windows, and I like it's multi-level app grouping in the way it does it. Or I tap click the icon, and all the windows for that app are revealed, and I choose with the trackball quickly. Fling left, choose large icon easily, click, fling right toward the window I want, click. I'd hate it on a mouse, but I love it on the trackball.
Post #367,228 by drook 12/4/12 12:29:02 PM Reply	Great with a trackpad on a laptop, too That's the design target, after all. -- Drew

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