Comments on: I Never Realized…

By: Javier

Javier — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:45:28 +0000

You're totally right!! they're changing everything every time, it's good to rethink some things and change them, but not everything!, the windows buttons has to be on the right! as always, this is not Mac. Why they didn't redesign nautilus interface which is so old and need a refresh?!

Despite these details, ubuntu is great! and although sometimes I do not agree with certain changes, each version gets better and better!

By: whiskey

whiskey — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:06:39 +0000

I totally concur. Wouldn’t it be wise to have separate applets and indicators (so that we get to choose which one we would like to have up there)?

By: Ilya Skorik

Ilya Skorik — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:18:31 +0000

But in real life it’s not so good Even popular pidgin it is beaten out from a theme

By: Ralf

Ralf — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:37:13 +0000

Yeah. The spacing of the notification area is WAY TOO MUCH. And inconsistent with the spacing in the applets.

But that's like the other BIG usability bugs, they've introduced in the last release.

they fucked up the GDM: it doesn't fit on 1024 width anymore. How can you not notice this? How could you possible ship this?
the notification bubble, is not in the top right corner, but just below it. They aren't going to fix it, because the 100+ people reporting this as a bug is explained it's a feature. They reserve space for the volume/brightness notification. Which is just ridiculous.

SO everything, they do something, they do it almost perfectly and then they fuck it up with inconsistency.

I'm not even going to touch the window buttons positions.

Let me take a dared guess; and I work with a lot of professional designers (i'm not one of them); this is not done by designers.

This is not done, by people, who have an actual clue.

Spacing needs to be consistent. Buttons needs to be at appropiate places, and take into consideration that we close a window about 100 times a day.

Real designers would start with a visual grid. Not just random chosen spacing.

PLEASE CANONICAL.

HIRE DESIGNERS.

THIS IS GOING WRONG AND IT"S IN THE DETAILS!

By: Ralf

Ralf — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:25:47 +0000

I'm a bit worried you call this sleeck. The spacing between the panel applets (wireless + volume) is different from the other icons.

Which is, I think, a big regression from lucid. Add to that that they still display notifications at some random area which isn't the top right (to preverse space for a possible brightness or volume notification).

It just feels clumsy. With all the new magic, which is very cool, consistency is king.

If you loose consistency, the new magic means nothing.

By: James

James — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:58:04 +0000

Ubuntu should work on the app launchers on the left side of the desktop. They’ve always looked wrong and now they look even worse. Maybe scale them so they are shorter than the panel ? Not sure.

By: Patman

Patman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:34:38 +0000

now the windows buttons just need to go back to where they were and were set.

if it stays on the left im moving to fedora.

By: tutuca

tutuca — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:58:21 +0000

Agreed. Un even and way too much spacing. But that’s just the icon, wait until you upen up the menus!!! huge left column >>> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox-applet/+bug/533548

By: Jeffrey Stedfast

Jeffrey Stedfast — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:03:33 +0000

I have to agree that that screenshot of the panel is beautiful.

The b&w icons on the dark grey background has a very simplistic look and just "feels right", somehow.

Good luck on Lucid Lynx.

By: Bastian Kennel

Bastian Kennel — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:07:46 +0000

If you use non-standard apps like Banshee Pidgin Skype Dropbox Compiz Fusion Icon Logout/Shutdown Applet You are currently left out, but nevertheless this is the right direction and beautiful!