Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better

Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by tannhaeuser on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:33AM (#17038228)

Another serious issue with Gnome IMHO, also shared with Unity, is way too small window edges so that attempting to drag-to-resize a window becomes an exercise in patience.

I'm on a laptop most of the time and, like you, have absolutely no desire to go back to wasteful non-global menus. Have you eyed a replacement DE for Unity/Ubuntu going forward?

Edit: OTOH, Ubuntu have clearly spent a good amount of effort to customize Gnome so here's hoping they can morph it to work like Unity even more (OHD, global menu)

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by neverminder on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:44AM (#17038315)

I've tried KDE Plasma too but didn't like it either. To me it looked like 15 years behind Unity in terms of polishing, aesthetics and design/look consistency of base applications such as file and task managers. Unfortunately Unity was just right for me and everything else feels like a massive step down without tweaking the shit out of it and still not quite getting wanted result.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by julioneander on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:59AM (#17038430)

I believe the resize issue is fixed on Gnome3 for awhile now, or maybe it was some issue with Ubuntu's default theme?

Global Menus is unfortunately something that I still miss, although I was able to recover some screen space with an Extension called Pixel Saver, which merges the window control bar with the panel by removing the window decorations and adding the buttons to the panel. Not ideal, but useful.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by Sylos on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:59AM (#17038892)

Are you aware that you can hold down Alt and right-click-drag on a window to resize it? Alt+left-click-drag moves the window. (I believe it's Alt on GNOME, might be the Windows/Super/Meta/Logo-key instead.)

So, when you have your hand on the keyboard, this can be much more convenient.

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