Another Ubuntu Interface refinement

[zvi]

Heads Up Display will be coming to Precise Pangolin.

From what I can tell, it's similar to gnome-do or Quicksilver, but even more entangled with what we normally think of as menu functions.

Thoughts, reactions, screams of panic and horror? Either yours or that you care to link to in the comments?

Comments

[teapot_rabbit]

I'm still running Lucid Lynx (10.4, I guess?) on my main desktop, because of my hatred of Unity. The HUD just looks like more of a bad thing. I'll probably be upgrading my hardware and switching back to Windows in the next few months.
It will be awfully nice to say goodbye to the Gimp.

[blnchflr]

I'm still running Maverick for similar reasons: I haven't yet tried Unity, because of the bad things I've heard.

I'm not at the point of going back to Windows, though, *clutches edge of desk in horror at thought*, but it's possible I won't be staying with Ubuntu.

[zvi]

Unity was very rocky in its first release, but I think it cleaned up nicely (not to perfect, but nicely) in 11.10.

[dragonwolf]

I switched to (and fell in love with) Fedora before 11.10 came out, but I fired up 11.10 in a VM not long ago. It's still not my cup of tea (I can't stand the "universal menu" system, and the way the dock is handled; it's also been my experience that it's not large/multi screen friendly), but I think it is substantially better than 11.04.

[teapot_rabbit]

I'm running some version of Unity on my netbook, and while it is kind of nice for a smaller screen, there are just too many things about it that drive me crazy. I detest the pop-up menu thing in Mac, and I detest it in Unity, too. I like my taskbar!

Plus, it's been a couple years, and I'm starting to miss being able to buy software that actually works.

[allen]

I switched over to Kubuntu. KDE is not quite as stable as I'd like, and the focus-follows-mouse fails on some edge cases, but otherwise I've been happy with it.

[zvi]

1) You can us the GIMP with Windows.
2) There are other Linux distros out there. You might like Xubuntu or Kubuntu, or even a non-Ubuntu derivative.

[teapot_rabbit]

Yes, but I really, really don't like Gimp. Adobe CSwhatever is a major plus for Windows.
I have been thinking about testing out other Linux distros.

[zvi]

I misread what you originally wrote; I thought you were saying that you were going to miss GIMP. That was faulty reading on my part, what you wrote was perfectly clear.

[dragonwolf]

I can't argue Photoshop's current superiority to Gimp (at least when dealing with interoperability), but their attitude toward the Linux community (and their userbase as whole) has turned me off of Adobe entirely.