Re: Unity

Just tried to run a liveCD of Natty64 on this machine - seems I dont 
have sufficient graphics power (GF7600/512mb/dua-lDVI) to run the unity 
side of things..
Well that's the decision made then - Gnome it is :)


On 04/05/11 16:46, Erin Drummond wrote:
> I am using it right now and I don't find it too bad. It would take a
> bit of getting used to if you aren't used to using an OSX-style doc
> and menus, but I dont find it slower to use. I actually prefer the
> extra screen real estate and I find moving my mouse to the edge of the
> screen to launch or focus any of my applications quite intuitive. I of
> course added my most commonly used applications to the sidebar so I
> could easily launch them without sifting through menus. I also like
> the search feature for launching applications, since I often forget
> which of the gnome menus an application is in.
>
> Unity also handles switching between multiple and single monitors much
> better than classic gnome (in classic, if you add a panel to your
> second screen so you can have a taskbar for windows on that screen, as
> soon as you unplug the screen that extra panel moves to the first
> screen. in Unity, it handles it all for you and you dont even need to
> add the extra panel to start with). I like this feature because I have
> a laptop which has an extra monitor attached at work, but not at home.
>
> I havn't tried the new gnome 3 shell though, although reports on the
> internet say people like it better than Unity, so you could give that
> a try