Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by mswift42 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:51PM (#14044024)

Same here. I love the keyboard friendliness out of the box, and especially how sparingly it uses vertical space.

I like gnome3 visually, but some design choices by the gnome team I don't understand. While unity uses a global menu, which displays the menu items in several columns, The gnome global menu has 1 column, with for most apps a single entry (quit).

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by rvern on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:20PM (#14044304)

A blog post by Allan Day addresses the vertical space issue: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/27/gnome-design-saving-....

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by mlvskmvd on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:13PM (#14044246)

I'm hoping Canonical can cook up a custom suite of extensions to make the GNOME desktop more unity like and maybe even more usable in general.

I'm fairly sure implementing unity/mac style global menus on GNOME can be done with an extension.

And if they don't contribute as much to the desktop, we'll probably see improvements in other areas such as performance.

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