<story><title>Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/ubuntu-desktop-moving-application-menus-back-into-application-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>Very slightly-off topic:&lt;p&gt;So, I have this theory. The theory is that Microsoft and&amp;#x2F;or Apple somehow infiltrated the Ubuntu organization and got their men in as developers and made big changes to sabotage and undermine the Ubuntu project. And they&amp;#x27;ve done great.&lt;p&gt;Let me tell you about the Unity Launcher: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bomski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/screenshot.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bomski.com&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;screenshot....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The awesome thing about it is the microscale indicator that is supposed to tell you what window is open. Yeah, that small little triangle on right&amp;#x2F;left side of icons. It gets even better when you have many windows open (the icon menu folds) or have more than one window open of a certain application (the triangle becomes an elongated thin icon which is now twice as difficult to make out in full-view): &lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-36ZlfS5qyI0/TZREYHuo56I/AAAAAAAAArw/oGdahPyxiNQ/s1600/Screenshot-11.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;-36ZlfS5qyI0&amp;#x2F;TZREYHuo56I&amp;#x2F;AAAAAAAAAr...&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, the most perfect applications panel design to get my mom to stop using Ubuntu (it worked, too!) When on a high resolution screen, I can&amp;#x27;t quite make them out either (so it got me to stop using Ubuntu as well)! Also, changing windows (e.g., if you have two or three document processing files open), how do you quickly and efficiently switch to the right one? I don&amp;#x27;t know! Give Ubuntu a chance yourself to see more gems like this. Man, I really have to give kudos to whoever is behind this, to have convinced their &amp;#x27;dedicated UI team&amp;#x27; that this shit is anything less than a joke. Bravo Apple&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;whoever you are, I&amp;#x27;m impressed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spittie</author><text>I have a different theory: the Ubuntu &amp;quot;core&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;design&amp;quot; teams have their vision of what Ubuntu will be, and just don&amp;#x27;t listen for feedback from the community.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fine to just push changes, otherwise we would be stuck in the 80s and the 90s (everyone hates changes), but it&amp;#x27;s not fine to not listen to any kind of feedback from the community, even after years.&lt;p&gt;The unity sidebar is the biggest example. They refused to let users change the size of the icons for years. Even now, you&amp;#x27;re still limited by a small range they&amp;#x27;ve decided on. They removed used, small features because it would make the codebase &amp;quot;harder to mantain&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The global menu is an usability nightmare on Ubuntu (the HUD instead is a pretty cool concept). I don&amp;#x27;t really like global menus, but Canonical managed to make it even worse - It&amp;#x27;s hidden by default, and get showed only on mouse hover. I&amp;#x27;ve been using Linux with various DE for years, and the last time I tried Ubuntu it took me 5 minutes to remember where is the menu (I can only wonder what would my parents do). Obviously, they didn&amp;#x27;t change this at all.&lt;p&gt;I could go on and complain about Ubuntu all day (and not only about Unity - I&amp;#x27;d like to talk about their tendency to patch everything downstream) but the message is &amp;quot;Canonical shot themself in the foot&amp;quot;. I can only hope this is a &amp;quot;new beginning&amp;quot; and they&amp;#x27;ll start to listen their userbase.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/ubuntu-desktop-moving-application-menus-back-into-application-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>Very slightly-off topic:&lt;p&gt;So, I have this theory. The theory is that Microsoft and&amp;#x2F;or Apple somehow infiltrated the Ubuntu organization and got their men in as developers and made big changes to sabotage and undermine the Ubuntu project. And they&amp;#x27;ve done great.&lt;p&gt;Let me tell you about the Unity Launcher: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bomski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/screenshot.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bomski.com&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;screenshot....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The awesome thing about it is the microscale indicator that is supposed to tell you what window is open. Yeah, that small little triangle on right&amp;#x2F;left side of icons. It gets even better when you have many windows open (the icon menu folds) or have more than one window open of a certain application (the triangle becomes an elongated thin icon which is now twice as difficult to make out in full-view): &lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-36ZlfS5qyI0/TZREYHuo56I/AAAAAAAAArw/oGdahPyxiNQ/s1600/Screenshot-11.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;-36ZlfS5qyI0&amp;#x2F;TZREYHuo56I&amp;#x2F;AAAAAAAAAr...&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, the most perfect applications panel design to get my mom to stop using Ubuntu (it worked, too!) When on a high resolution screen, I can&amp;#x27;t quite make them out either (so it got me to stop using Ubuntu as well)! Also, changing windows (e.g., if you have two or three document processing files open), how do you quickly and efficiently switch to the right one? I don&amp;#x27;t know! Give Ubuntu a chance yourself to see more gems like this. Man, I really have to give kudos to whoever is behind this, to have convinced their &amp;#x27;dedicated UI team&amp;#x27; that this shit is anything less than a joke. Bravo Apple&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;whoever you are, I&amp;#x27;m impressed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>streptomycin</author><text>My conspiracy theory is that it was all a practical joke by Shuttleworth, bringing us so close to the ideal of a usable Linux desktop that everyone could get behind, and then randomly moving shit around and creating division within the Linux community. We went from Ubuntu clearly being the market leader and providing a consistent UI, to a clusterfuck of different distributions and DEs.</text></comment>