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 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, it sucked. 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. Collapse 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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