This has probably been brought up before, but I was just curious as to whether any of you would be interested in seeing the Unity desktop brought to openSUSE or expect it to be. I assume that eventually it will be made available in other distributions as well other than just Ubuntu.
I know that a lot of people can’t stand it but I loaded up Ubuntu the other day and after a brief period of fiddling around in there I actually kind of like it.
Hmm. How does go about editing the title of their post. I neglected to capitalize it.
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:26:03 +0000, Scott Swinyard wrote:
> This has probably been brought up before, but I was just curious as to
> whether any of you would be interested in seeing the Unity desktop
> brought to openSUSE or expect it to be. I assume that eventually it will
> be made available in other distributions as well other than just Ubuntu.
>
> I know that a lot of people can’t stand it but I loaded up Ubuntu the
> other day and after a brief period of fiddling around in there I
> actually kind of like it.
You might search the forums on ‘Unity’ as there have been some threads on
this topic already.
I’ve tried briefly both ubuntu 11.04 (I think) some time ago and oS 12.1 Gnome livecd last week. I tried ubuntu in a spare partition on my desktop (24" monitor) and gnome on my laptop (15.4" screen).
I found gnome interesting, and ubuntu wasteful of screen space, but that’s probably because of the larger monitor on my desktop.
Opensuse’s Gnome seemed polished, nice effects and well thought out for mobiles and other small screen devices. Too much clicking, however, to get to the same apps AFAIKS. But that is only my first impression, probably this can be optimized.
Being a long time kde user, both seemed similar to me, with the left-sided bar and such. What I’m curious is if there are any glaring differences in the desktop philosophy or if they are indeed similar - akin to KDE’s netbook form factor.
I’m not saying one is better than the other, just trying to understand unity and gnome 3 better without actively using them (for now :)).
Oh, and the left-sided bar is better suited than KDE’s horizontal task bar for today’s small widescreen displays, that get squashed at every new generation - a “nice” way to sell large-diagonal displays with less actual area than “squarish” displays with the same diagonal. Unless you only use your monitor to watch 2.21:1 widescreen movies…
On 27/11/11 20:36, brunomcl wrote:
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> Oh, and the left-sided bar is better suited than KDE’s horizontal task
> bar for today’s small widescreen displays, that get squashed at every
> new generation - a “nice” way to sell large-diagonal displays with less
> actual area than “squarish” displays with the same diagonal. Unless you
> only use your monitor to watch 2.21:1 widescreen movies…
>
>
So why not move the task-bar? My KDE task-bar is on the right-hand side
of the screen.
If you’ve not found it, right-click on the bar, and click on “panel
options” / “panel settings.” Put your cursor on “screen edge” and drag
it to where you want it. You can then alter the width and you may need
to alter the “pager settings” for your desktops menu.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.3; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
Thanks Cloddy, I’m aware of that (since KDE 3.x IINM). I seems to me that the status-aware icons in gnome3 (and I presume it’s similar in unity) work as a kind of task button and fit better in a sidebar than the standard kde4 task buttons (too large). But what I’m interested is not in reformatting my desktop, but learn from users with experience in both DEs how they significantly differ from KDE or gnome2.
Well for start Unity has his origins in Gnome3 but when it comes to Gnome3 vs Unity i trust Gnome3 more than i do Unity; if you think i`m wrong surf the web and search for Unity and you guys will see a lot of controversy surrounding Unity.
I did start a topic related with Unity asking if the desktop will be available under openSUSE and the maintainer said that its better is stick to Gnome 3. I say lets listen to the guy and if we really want to see Unity just boot a live cd with Ubuntu.
There is a lot of controversy around Unity, but it’s not really justified imho. There’s been far too much of a complete overreaction to both Unity and Gnome 3/Shell.
The thing with Unity for me personally is, though I liked it a lot, I just didn’t love it like I do Gnome Shell. It does do a couple of things better than Gnome 3, such as the Zeitgeist search which is very nice, but that functionality is coming to Gnome 3 Shell anyway. But outside of that I just find it too clicky and and flawed in design. Having the bar on the left is a great idea, but why does it have to keep springing into life whenever I mouse there? It seems a little flawed by design. The Gnome Shell way makes much more sense.
Ultimately, for me, let the DE designers create the DE’s, and let the distro creators make the distros. I’m a little uncomfortable with the idea of the Frankenstein DE that Unity threatens to become, neither Gnome 3 nor it’s own thing completely. Can Ubuntu afford to spend so much time and focus getting a desktop environment polished up and finished when bugs are going begging? I don’t know, but it’ll be interesting to see where it goes next.
