Lots of users are confused by the recent moves of both GNOME and Ubuntu.
They are substantive and both are much changed. There are many similarities
and a few notable differences, so it is hard to keep it all straight. Most
readers know that it is just change and are resistive. Reading about the
changes and actually dealing with them is enlightening. Unfortunately Ubuntu
is built on a GNOME 2.x framework and is incompatible with GNOME 3, so you
cannot have both installed at once. With 11.10 that will change. It is being
built on a GNOME 3 framework, so you can run them side by side and see what
the buzz is all about. The downside of this is that you lose classic GNOME
with 11.10.
As to what they are moving towards, GNOME and Canonical have ambitions to
make the computer easy to use for anyone. Unity is also trying to keep
advanced users by providing many hotkeys for everything and adding lenses
and improving configuration. I think that GNOME is sticking with the plan of
keeping it more locked down, although GNOME Tweak may add features to work
around the limitations.
Since GNOME 3 and Unity lack a panel and the system tray is either
non-existent or very controlled, it is not good for users who need this
capability. I would recommend either XFCE or KDE for those users. I use a
radio application to listen to internet radio and it runs from the system
tray (Radiotray) and when I am in Unity or GNOME 3 I immediately feel the
lack of love because I work with background noise in addition to having lots
on my desktop and multi-task like nobody's business. Most users do not work
my way and may not feel its limitations. I hope they will give both an
honest try because they are both good in their own way.
Roy
Using Kubuntu 11.04, 64-bit
Location: Canada
On 3 July 2011 12:44, c beck <usabecker@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Not all. GNOME 3 does not allow anything to minimise (no buttons) and
> > there is no system tray
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> Wow, I completely forgot about the lacking buttons in Gnome 3. I
> remember reading about their rationale for doing that in amazement.
> One fell swoop to turn a highly functional desktop into the equivalent
> of what the Windows Mobile operating system has been since 2003. I
> can see what they are trying to move towards, though...
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