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For touchscreen some sort of slider button makes sense, but desktop is not touchscreen, it's mouseclick.
Although I think they should somehow show the "OFF" in a disabled state, like being occluded...

THanks.

I am playing in window mode with the default video player in Ubuntu.

I press CTRL+ALT+NUM_1 on the keyboard and the video player is repositioned and resized to fit in the bottom-left quadrant.
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Just because someone gives you a free CD with DOS doesn't mean they're gonna install it.

Thing is perception really. In my company probably 90% of the users could use Linux if the CEO of the...

I don't agree with that.

[ ] Allow Canonical to snoop on my searches.
[X] Allow Canonical to snoop on my searches.

Which is on and off? Dead obvious. Check boxes are everywhere, on the web,...

When I see this toggle button I think of the WC door locks, one showing "OCCUPIED" in red and "UNOCCUPIED" in green.

Problem is in UI is that the user can have either the question in his mind "Is...

Yea, I agree.

I have virtualbox and I have been trying out tons other Linux distros.. .but honestly... most other linux distros make my eyes just hurt. When people say "it's just like windows" I...

It is true, a user must have certain knowledge to use computers, a mouse, a keyboard, a browser, etc.

Maybe what I am getting at is... things that are unintuitive but don't need to be.

I'm...

You're much too forgiving for my taste, but good that you agree.

I'd personally like to meet those who decided that this was a good design and yell at them.
It's been said that Steve Jobs liked...

Windows had a firewall, but was plagued with viruses anyway.

Now that I have installed Ubuntu, should I consider some sort of firewall?

My router does have a firewall though!

I'm a usability expert and user interface designer/programmer, been working on TV interfaces for a decade and other interfaces for 15 years now.

I could not understand the functionality of that...

I've been trying out the Cairo Dock. It looks nice.

Anyway, obviously, I don't want the unity launchpad AND the Cairo Dock at the same time. I logged with Cairo Dock instead of Ubuntu Unity....

Cairo dock pleases me! :D

Now, I only need to get rid of this Unity stuff.
And customize the top bar.. or get rid of it entirely.

Thanks :)

Bunch of framesworks and libraries, each doing their part.

I never liked how Windows did things. I hated the fact files were scattered throughout the file system, you never knew where things ended up, either in a hidden appdata, in some obscure users...

Thank you! This is pretty much my entire point. Here you have two of the world's largest software makers, creators of the world's two most popular human/computer interfaces, have large teams of...

I've been around long enough to know what Linux is, was using slackware with x11 back in 1996, but only for a short while as it was useless. So been in windows ever since.

But recently started...

Still very confusing. I have no idea how everything works together. I have Ubuntu 13.04 desktop default setup, what am I using and how does it work together? How is this layered?

X11
Nautilus
Compiz
gtk
gnome
unity
..


What the heck am I using in Ubuntu? All? What role does every one of those serve? I'm trying to make sense of all these terms and how the windowing...

My desktop isn't a TV or a phone. Why treat it as such? This is such a huge mistake.

As for the horizontal screen real estate vs. vertical screen real estate... if this were true then why is there...

Thanks for a great reply Copper Bezel!



Perhaps.
I find the answer "you get used to it" really not satisfactory, but seems to be the default here. I can't believe this important issue is...

Thanks but no thanks, I want my system to be configured so it's easy to maintain, I don't want to hack it to get what I want.

Why is it that whenever there's a trivial issue in Linux, you need...

There are a lot of desktop usability issues in Ubuntu IMO. I do feel this is the best Linux end-user distro, but is a far cry from e.g. Windows or MacOs.

Here are a few issues, both usability,...

Well, I don't know how to change the default ubuntu theme... there's no option of changing anything.

I find this so frustrating whenever I want to resize a window by grabbing its border. I have to be very accurate, the border seems to be only 1 pixel in thickness. Windows is more forgiving.

Also,...