Natty Narwhal
Mar. 28th, 2011 05:02 pmTook a very quick look at Ubuntu 11.04 this afternoon.
Oh my. What a mess!
I don't have a fundamental objection to Unity the way some people do -- I typically use a Mac as a desktop so the single-menu-bar thing doesn't bother me -- but the inconsistency of it sure does!
Gtk+ applications use the menu bar at the top. Apps using other libraries do not. This is something of an issue when the web browser and office suite are in that category.
There's also some weirdness with that menu bar, sometimes a delay before it registers that the mouse is over a menu item. This is a bug, and the sort of thing I imagine they'll fix before release. But the Firefox/LibreOffice/etc problem seems like a bigger issue, and probably not possible to solve without getting the Mozilla and OOo people involved, not unless Canonical want to maintain their own forks.
My overwhelming reaction right now is: we're going through all this acrimony for this?
Oh my. What a mess!
I don't have a fundamental objection to Unity the way some people do -- I typically use a Mac as a desktop so the single-menu-bar thing doesn't bother me -- but the inconsistency of it sure does!
Gtk+ applications use the menu bar at the top. Apps using other libraries do not. This is something of an issue when the web browser and office suite are in that category.
There's also some weirdness with that menu bar, sometimes a delay before it registers that the mouse is over a menu item. This is a bug, and the sort of thing I imagine they'll fix before release. But the Firefox/LibreOffice/etc problem seems like a bigger issue, and probably not possible to solve without getting the Mozilla and OOo people involved, not unless Canonical want to maintain their own forks.
My overwhelming reaction right now is: we're going through all this acrimony for this?