On Friday, July 08, 2011 07:46:08 am Jerome wrote:

I'm not sure if Gimp developers are able to assist, but

running Gimp in

Unity seems to be a bit problematic at times. Because of

the global menu,

focus on the correct toolbox / area is needed.

Furthermore, Unity / Gimp

seems to apply the focusing a bit unintelligently. For

example, if I move

to another workspace and return to the Gimp workspace,

the focus is no

longer on the main window, but rather on the toolbox.

Thoughts?

What is Unity?

http://unity.ubuntu.com/

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 14:15, John Culleton wrote:

On Friday, July 08, 2011 07:46:08 am Jerome wrote:

I'm not sure if Gimp developers are able to assist, but running Gimp in

Unity seems to be a bit problematic at times. Because of the global menu,

focus on the correct toolbox / area is needed. Furthermore, Unity / Gimp

seems to apply the focusing a bit unintelligently. For example, if I move

to another workspace and return to the Gimp workspace, the focus is no

longer on the main window, but rather on the toolbox.

Thoughts?

What is Unity?

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On 08/07/2011 3:52 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote:

Unity is not ready for prime time yet? It's really lacking in a lot of areas, and the UI experience is quite horrid.

For those people using Ubuntu 11.04, Unity is the default environment in which they will be working. I very quickly removed Unity and installed Gnome on my computers.

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On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:15:25 -0400 Kevin Cozens wrote:

Unity is not ready for prime time yet? It's really lacking in a lot of areas, and the UI experience is quite horrid.

For those people using Ubuntu 11.04, Unity is the default environment in which they will be working. I very quickly removed Unity and installed Gnome on my computers.

You could also choose the old classic Ubuntu from the login screen without any removal/install actions.

- Richard

< snip >

You could also choose the old classic Ubuntu from the login screen without any removal/install actions.

That's exactly what I did.

Norman

On 2011-07-09 16:45, R Kimber wrote:

Unity is not ready for prime time yet? It's really lacking in a lot of areas, and the UI experience is quite horrid.

For those people using Ubuntu 11.04, Unity is the default environment in which they will be working. I very quickly removed Unity and installed Gnome on my computers.

You could also choose the old classic Ubuntu from the login screen without any removal/install actions.

You could also select "Ubuntu classic" in System Settings -> Login Screen and it will be default for all future logins.