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
