[ale] ranting about new Ubuntu UI

[Jim Kinney]

Flame away!  I think there's been a huge influx of ego and an exodus of
smarts in the interface design of both fedora 15 gnome3 and Ubuntu unity. By
all means, flame on and hope the devs read it and weep and make a better ui
for next major release.
I'm not sure they could do worse.
On Jun 20, 2011 7:21 PM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 18:38 -0400, Collin Pruitt wrote:
>> But, due to our focus on creating a "clean and easy to
>> use experience", we did it anyway. Honestly, I despise Unity. It's a
>> pain to use, as you figured out. Another thing is the existence of
>> GNOME Shell. I can't understand why the high-ups at Canonical feel
>> it's a good idea to waste our resources on developing our own UI when
>> we could just as easily use GNOME's and not fracture the desktop UI
>> scene even more, and when there are far bigger issues in the user
>> experience with Ubuntu than the User Interface is concerned.
>
> Because it tickles Shuttleworth's... something or another. I probably
> can't say it on the list without getting temporarily censored.
>
> --- Mike
>
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