Mark Shuttleworth Announces Unity and Ubuntu Light, a new shell for netbooks

[chappajar]

This thread is slightly confusing (confused?); we are talking about two separate products:
Unity - improved interface for netbooks and tablets
Light - instant on

[mister_playboy]

Wow I was sort of right when I said he was going to move the window list to the side

I actually decided to try moving KDE's panel to the left side after hearing about this redesign, and I'm already really liking it.

[Lightstar]

Wow I was sort of right when I said he was going to move the window list to the side

My AWN "taskbar/dock" has been on the right for a long time now.

[BrokenKingpin]

I use DockBarX on the left side when using a widescreen monitor, it is a better use of space.

[Paqman]

This thread is slightly confusing (confused?); we are talking about two separate products:
Unity - improved interface for netbooks and tablets
Light - instant on

Not really. Ubuntu Light is where you're going to see Unity rolled out.

[truethug]

I don't use windows anymore but when I did in the past I always set up a dual boot so that if/when windows crashed I could recover my music and documents. Might be a good selling point to get people to use Ubuntu Light that have never tried Linux before.

[23meg]

Not really. Ubuntu Light is where you're going to see Unity rolled out.

Unity is also set to become the default interface for UNE in 10.10.

[haddog]

Bring it on. My Dell mini is ready!

[VeeDubb]

Just played with the alpha on my asus 1201n.

As a proof of concept, it's excellent. However, "dash" is still non-existent, and the entire project is useless for the average user until that comes long.

The only program launcher for anything other than favorites that are in the launch bar is a nautilus link to /usr/share/applications