Natty Narwhal's Unity, final take
I have previously blogged on Ubuntu's Natty Narwhal Unity shortcomings, and added some additional thoughts on my own configuration.
With a non-hiding Unity launcher that works as an old-style launcher and as a windows list, what I really missed were the applets.
It turns out that there are many efforts to replace those applets with "indicators", for example see this link.
So I installed the weather indicator, the system load indicator and this allowed me to get back to a decent configuration that I find efficient enough for my daily work.
Considering that Ubuntu will drop the "classic" mode for 11.10, I felt it was better to get used to Unity as soon as possible.
I am confident the application indicators will improve over time, so eventually - hopefully - Unity will be as good as the classic mode.
With a non-hiding Unity launcher that works as an old-style launcher and as a windows list, what I really missed were the applets.
It turns out that there are many efforts to replace those applets with "indicators", for example see this link.
So I installed the weather indicator, the system load indicator and this allowed me to get back to a decent configuration that I find efficient enough for my daily work.
Considering that Ubuntu will drop the "classic" mode for 11.10, I felt it was better to get used to Unity as soon as possible.
I am confident the application indicators will improve over time, so eventually - hopefully - Unity will be as good as the classic mode.
posted by Simon at
21:04
2 Comments:
Hi Simone,
I have a completely unrelated question :)
Is Foxtrot development halted?
I see that in Sourceforge there is a ticket about Java7 deadlocking and, before start using foxtrot, I was wondering if it will someday get fixed.
Thanks, and congratulation for such a great tool
By
Unai Vivi, at 08 May, 2013 10:05
The development of Foxtrot is really calm :)
The ticket at SourceForge about Java7 has been resolved with Foxtrot 4.0.
By
Simon, at 08 May, 2013 22:39
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