[PLUG] Creating a new launch item in Unity

Joe Niski joeniski at easystreet.net
Thu Jan 24 00:22:52 UTC 2013


On 2013-01-23 3:50 PM, "Bruce Kilpatrick" <kd7vvk at gmail.com> wrote:


>
>If you would prefer, Ctl-Alt-t is the keyboard shortcut for the Terminal
>app.  I think it still works in Unity.
>
>Bruce
>_______________________________________________

This thread is timely for me, as i finally got around to performing a
mind-wipe/clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 last weekend. i'd been using 10.10
since it first released (and many releases prior to 10), and a lot of the
3rd-party repos had stopped updates for it (got stuck on older Firefox &
Thunderbird). i figured i'd give Unity a try, even though i'm a bit of a
luddite and had grown really comfy in my highly customized Gnome2
environment(s) over the last seven or eight years.

i went into the effort well aware of the many complaints, and annoyed by
the new wave of Ubuntu fanboy-ism that rivals passionate Mac-o-philes and
seems to have sprung up in recent times (get offa my lawn!).

A few days in, and i'm surprised at how much i like it. Yes, i have to
hunt down and install some new "tweak" tools to customize the environment
in ways that Gnome2 supported out of the box, and i'm wary of just loading
my old Compiz settings, and the color scheme is gawd-awful, but it suits
my working style pretty well.

i've always relied on the keyboard more than the mouse, which usually just
slows me down. Gnome's keyboard access to the gui is great (and it's that
aspect of MS Windows that i prefer to the slavish mouse-dependency of Mac
OS X). i've grown quite dependent on Gnome-Do (a clone of the QuickSilver
utility for OSX) for learning my usage habits. So, im already fairly quick
at finding what i need in Unity by just typing away.

i don't like the "universal menu bar" glued to the top of the primary
display (similar to OS X), as it makes mousing the menus a longer trip
than when the menu bar is in the app window. Also, it seems like setting
the window-focus behavior to follow the mouse position rather than
clicking-to-focus causes problems with the proper menu appearing. And i
haven't tried it with multiple displays.

i still have plenty of tweaking to do and tools to reinstall (not looking
forward to reinstalling the JVMs i need for development & testing), but
i'm liking it a lot more than i thought i would. Once i get it tuned i
plan to add Gnome Shell and give that a try as well.
________________________________________
Joe Shisei Niski
Portland, Oregon, USA
至誠





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