Jolly July Screenshots

[Version Dependency]

Still fooling around with Unity...and conky.

[Dobbie03]

My first steps into Arch Linux....via CTKArch.

http://i.imgur.com/1Qcpx.jpg

[UKBB]

Can you tell us what that wallpaper is or provide a link?

[IWantFroyo]

Mine. 10.04.3, with very little modification (on the outside).

[Whistling Nixie]

Linux desktop by transitmapsetc, on Flickr


Linux desktop by transitmapsetc, on Flickr


Linux desktop by transitmapsetc, on Flickr


Linux desktop by transitmapsetc, on Flickr

[Quadunit404]

Decided to provide a dirty screenshot. I'm not providing a clean screenshot as my desktop is the same as the last time.

What's running in DOSBox is WANTGONE.EXE, which runs a DOSified Want You Gone. By coincidence it just happened to have got to "You want your freedom?/Take it./That's what I'm counting on." when I took the screenshot.

[Copper Bezel]

I like the Windows snap thing, but the dock hides all the time, and if they set it to where I could hit the left side of the screen to bring it up rather than the top left corner only then I'd be happy with the dock. I don't like the applications menu at all, I don't get why it needs to suggest software to me and why it only shows 6 applications that I use frequently. It's dumb to be given choice of either typing to search for an application, or to bring up an entire menu of all your applications at once when the category organization that's the normal way feels so much simpler. There's just too many clicks for me. I have a small screen, but I have Cairo dock set to reserve space for itself at all times. I find having to hit the edge of a screen to call the dock more annoying than sacrificing some vertical pixels. Also I didn't like that they stuffed everything from the title bar into the global menu like the close, minimize, and maximize buttons.

Also, you don't need Natty for the Windows snap, you can set it up in compiz.

Yeah, the Dash in Unity seems rather awful now with so many better variations on the idea out there. Even OSX Lion's new Dash is following the model that Gnome Shell and Pantheon did. I still use Synapse for all of my launching needs (and don't have a main menu of any kind) and I get the sense that, for a machine with a keyboard, search-based launching is really the most efficient method, and the Dash screen is more about providing an overview of installed apps than it is about everyday launching. (Why dig out an app by yourself when you can just ask for it?) But no matter what it's for, Unity's model is flawed.

There are a lot of Aero Snap equivalents, some of which work on 10.10, none of which are actually equivalent to Aero Snap. The Grid plugin can be compiled for 10.10, but as I understand it, that version is more like a tiling window manager than Snap (keyboard driven.) Other workarounds pre-Grid depend on mouse position only, so just touching the screen edges by accident ends up tossing things around. At the moment, I have a command set to clicking the top edge that un-maximizes a window horizontally and toggles the vertical maximization, which feels roughly like pinning and unpinning a window to an imaginary clothesline. If the Grid is unpredictable even in 11.04, then I'm not all interested in it.

I've taken to having the dock always visible, too, though I keep it relatively small (~25px) and on the left, which means it's taking up fewer pixels than it would be otherwise. I'm on a netbook screen as well, at least when I'm not using an external at home. Unity's dock actually can be set to always visible, which solves some of the problems you're talking about, but it's fat and cluttered, of course, in comparison to what you can do with Cairo Dock or AWN. I actually have my dock housing only DockBarX, and I'd just use DockBarX naked if the theme of the dock could be changed.

[Mark76]

OS X Lion

Unity

No Gnome Shell?

Does Lion have the dock at the side by default or did you just move it there?

[Copper Bezel]

Bottom by default, but it's always been movable, and it's hilarious to see it on the left in the Mission Control shot. I didn't realize you could make it stop being ugly, though, and the Gnome Shell look makes that cap all the more precious.

[Dobbie03]

Just a quick update on my new Arch set up:

http://dobbie03.deviantart.com/#/d41gv24