Activities overview: where?

[shochatd]

Still trying to figure out Unity. The help app keeps talking about the "Activities overview". How do I get to this? One place says to click the "Activities" menu in the upper left corner. But the only thing I see in the upper-left corner is the Ubuntu logo and that brings up the dash. Another place says that the dash is the left side of the Activities overview, but when I bring up the dash, it's all by itself. No workspace list on the right. Another place says that if I move my cursor to the right side of the "Activities overview", a list of workspaces will appear. How do I see this functionality?
Thanks.
-- David

[3Miro]

You are mixing up tutorials for Unity and Gnome-shell. Ubuntu uses Unity not Gnome-shell.

In Unity, you have an applet on the left-hand-side dock. It is the second applet after your launchers/icons. If you click on that, you will be able to see all desktops. You can also setup a keyboard shortcut from compiz-config-settings-manager (install it via the software center). I think the default shortcut is the Meta (between Ctr and Alt) and E.

[ankspo71]

Ahh 3Miro beat me to it, but here is what I was about to post anyways :D

Hi,
I think what you are reading about "Activities Overview" is bits of documentation that is specific to gnome-shell, a part of the new Gnome3 desktop which isn't available in Ubuntu yet.

Activities Overview for Gnome3:
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.0/#rnusers.overview
Or see the "Create workspaces" video here: http://www.gnome3.org/

Hope this helps.

[shochatd]

Ok, except for one thing. The help app ("Ubuntu Desktop Guide") that's feeding me all this information about "Activities overview" etc. says very clearly on the opening page:
"This help applies if you are using the default Unity desktop." (emphasis added)
And the screenshot at the top looks exactly like my (Unity) desktop. From there, if I click on "Windows and workspaces" and then "What is a workspace, and how will it help me", I get to a page that tells me about the "Activities overview". Another discrepancy: It says that "System preferences" is in the menu with my name. No, it's at the bottom of the "power button" menu at the far upper-right corner.
So, how do I get to the actual Unity documentation?
-- David

[3Miro]

Ok, except for one thing. The help app ("Ubuntu Desktop Guide") that's feeding me all this information about "Activities overview" etc. says very clearly on the opening page:
"This help applies if you are using the default Unity desktop." (emphasis added)
And the screenshot at the top looks exactly like my (Unity) desktop. From there, if I click on "Windows and workspaces" and then "What is a workspace, and how will it help me", I get to a page that tells me about the "Activities overview". Another discrepancy: It says that "System preferences" is in the menu with my name. No, it's at the bottom of the "power button" menu at the far upper-right corner.
So, how do I get to the actual Unity documentation?
-- David

:confused: What you are describing is exactly Gnome-shell ... could this be a guide about Unity in 10.10 (netbook) there were some differences there ...

Here is a comprehensive Unity guide from this forum:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1742326

[ankspo71]

Hi,
I can see it too and I've just reported this as a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/773427