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There is a control that adjusts the size of the icons, but I think
you will have to download it. I have not sorted out yet how to add
permanent buttons to that launch bar..<br>
<br>
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On 06/20/2011 06:05 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTi=VVw-gZW2bkgzN+er2XNa4f422fw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I feel your pain brother from the Fedora 15 side of
the WTF!!!! were they thinking when they designed THIS interface.<br>
<br>
Apparently both Ubuntu and Fedora UI designers are twins about the
age of 14 whose friends all got iPads for gifts.<br>
<br>
My 12 year old son came to complain that the new filemanager is so
stupid he can't drop a new downloaded file into a shortcut
bookmark using drag-n-drop. He has to right-click on the bookmark,
select open in new window, then drag to the new window.<br>
<br>
He and I both will be converting desktops and laptops to
Scientific Linux 6 ASAP. <br>
<br>
As RedHat uses Fedora as a testbed for future RHEL products, I
suspect that F15 will hit the trashcan and the gnome3 crap will
get cleaned up or have functionality/useability/workflow concepts
added back in pretty quickly.<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Ron
Frazier <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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wrote:<br>
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Hi guys. I've been away from the list for a while, so I don't
know if<br>
this has been already discussed. I also apologize to anyone I
offend<br>
who may totally disagree with me. No offense is intended.<br>
<br>
I decided to do some digital house keeping and download and
make CD's of<br>
the most recent Ubuntu ISO's. After burning the CD's, I
wanted to<br>
verify that each CD was burned correctly. I looked up the
appropriate<br>
MD5sum command and saved it in a text file on the hard drive.
Then, I<br>
booted up the Ubuntu 11.04 desktop CD and clicked Try Ubuntu
to get it<br>
started. WOW! I was freaked out because the UI was totally
different<br>
from 10.04 which I'm used to. From the podcasts, I knew this
was<br>
happening, but hadn't seen it. Now, I'll admit I'm biased
toward what I<br>
know. And, I'll admit that I only spent 20-30 minutes looking
at it.<br>
However, my basic first impression is ... hate it, hate it,
hate it,<br>
hate it, hate it, hate it. It seems everyone is trying to
redesign<br>
their operating system to operate from the point of view of a
tablet<br>
based touch screen. However, they seem to be throwing mouse
based,<br>
large screen devices under the bus. I think that's incredibly
stupid.<br>
To do the CD integrity check that I wanted to do, I had to
start the<br>
text editor, copy the command I'd saved, start a terminal
window, and<br>
paste the command into that. What the @#$%$#$ is wrong with a
stinking<br>
menu?! It took me 10 minutes just to find out how to start
the text<br>
editor and the terminal with the new system. Instead of menu,<br>
accessories, text editor; it's now menu, more applications,
see all 75<br>
apps, scroll scroll scroll all the huge icons down the screen
to find<br>
the "T" section, then click text editor. Now that I know how
to do it,<br>
it's not THAT hard. But what's the point. It definitely
takes more<br>
clicks and mouse movements than it did before. From the
podcasts I<br>
listen to, It looks like Windows 8 will be doing something
similar with<br>
the UI. If so, I think it's stupid on their part too. Why
can't the<br>
designers just realize that desktop / laptop computers and
tablets /<br>
smart phones need different UI's. I wouldn't try to put all
the<br>
controls from a motorcycle on a car, and I wouldn't try to put
all the<br>
controls from a car on a motorcycle.<br>
<br>
Here are some other things I hate at first glance.<br>
<br>
* There is a huge bar of icons on the left. It seems to be a
quick<br>
launch bar and a task bar combined. I'm OK with that concept.
I've<br>
been keeping my task bar vertical anyway. What I hate is that
the icons<br>
are enormous. They take up a huge amount of vertical space.
Therefore,<br>
if you have 5 quick launch icons open and 5 apps open, then
the task bar<br>
is full. I don't know what happens after that. It may be
possible to<br>
customize it, but there is no obvious way, like right clicking
it. The<br>
other thing I don't like is that it's not obvious what are
quick launch<br>
icons and what are running applications. The system seems to
put a<br>
small arrow next to applications, but I don't think it's very
effective.<br>
<br>
* The traditional Gnome "panels" seem to be gone. Or, if
they're there,<br>
there's not obvious way to access or customize them, including
the top<br>
panel that appears by default.<br>
<br>
* The APPLICATION menu bar (for the text editor, for example)
appears in<br>
the top of the screen panel OF THE OS when you roll your mouse
up there<br>
and disappears when you roll your mouse away. It does not
appear in the<br>
window for the application. Why the @$$%%$$# do the designers
think<br>
that I want my APPLICATION MENU to be married to the OS
DISPLAY?! And,<br>
even if I did, why the $%#$$##$ do the designers think I want
it<br>
vanishing every time I move away from it?! Stupid. Stupid.
Stupid.<br>
<br>
* Finally, there is no scroll bar on long display items and no
up and<br>
down arrows. If you roll your mouse over where those features
should<br>
be, a scroll device which can be dragged or clicked magically
appears.<br>
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.<br>
<br>
Again, no offense intended. Others may love these features
just as<br>
passionately as I hate them. Anyway, I'm definitely NOT
installing<br>
Ubuntu 11.04 or Windows 8 (when it's available) unless I
extensively<br>
test in a VM first. Probably, I'll just stick with Ubuntu
10.04 and<br>
Windows Vista or Windows 7 until they stop patching them.
That should<br>
be about 2 more years for Ubuntu and 7 more years for Windows.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
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might want to<br>
call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from
alternate energy<br>
mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very
quickly.)<br>
<br>
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