This article made me want to try out the new Ubuntu in a vm. I am looking for a download as I type.
I absolutely HATE the fact that when I click an running application's icon in the taskbar in Windows 7 it only sometimes makes that application active. If the app has multiple windows (sometimes tabs) open, it shows a list for me to choose from. That sucks as it requires more clicks, just show the last used window on click of the taskbar icon,on hover show that list of open windows/tabs. OS X got this right (even though they make all of the windows/tabs for the app come to the front).
YUP! Unity has this right. I opened multiple Firefox windows then opened a home folder. When the homefolder has focus, I single click the firefox icon and it brings all of the ff windows to the front. If ff has focus and I click the icon, i get an expose-like view of all of the ff windows. Windows 7 window management isnt as good. It slows me down A LOT.
I could see myself using this version of Ubuntu. The very first thing that I noticed is that they managed to get rid of the fat-tipped cursor pointer. The os over all looks good and smooth, a lot like a website, I'd just like to see a more dock-like experience with the unity bar (move around, resize etc)
ehhh, I hate the hidden options on the title bar (file, edit, etc) not a big deal, but could be confusing to someone
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This article made me want to try out the new Ubuntu in a vm. I am looking for a download as I type.
I absolutely HATE the fact that when I click an running application's icon in the taskbar in Windows 7 it only sometimes makes that application active. If the app has multiple windows (sometimes tabs) open, it shows a list for me to choose from. That sucks as it requires more clicks, just show the last used window on click of the taskbar icon,on hover show that list of open windows/tabs. OS X got this right (even though they make all of the windows/tabs for the app come to the front).
YUP! Unity has this right. I opened multiple Firefox windows then opened a home folder. When the homefolder has focus, I single click the firefox icon and it brings all of the ff windows to the front. If ff has focus and I click the icon, i get an expose-like view of all of the ff windows. Windows 7 window management isnt as good. It slows me down A LOT.
I could see myself using this version of Ubuntu. The very first thing that I noticed is that they managed to get rid of the fat-tipped cursor pointer. The os over all looks good and smooth, a lot like a website, I'd just like to see a more dock-like experience with the unity bar (move around, resize etc)
ehhh, I hate the hidden options on the title bar (file, edit, etc) not a big deal, but could be confusing to someone