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kaberettSo it seems I really, really dislike user interface changes.
Or rather - I really, really dislike user interface changes that try to "streamline". I'm still using Firefox 3.6ish, because I took one look at Firefox 4 and, well, my instinctive reaction is "um NO".
I had just-about managed to get through the gritting-my-teeth phase of the previous Google redesign (no, really, I genuinely found the search bar at the bottom of each results page genuinely useful, and I really don't like the way that image results are now ENDLESS SCROLLING DOWN, and argh argh argh)... and along comes the next one, which makes me tense and unhappy and miserable ALL OVER AGAIN.
(Incidentally? They seem to have broken gmail webmail, in that it's now the case that if I open an e-mail to read it, scroll down to get to the bottom, and hit back... I am landed halfway down the mailbox page rather than, you know, up at the top. Where the other new messages are. Never mind the fact that it now takes two clicks to log out instead of one, unless you're in basic HTML mode.)
... and then a textbook was knocked onto the laptop I have with me out here (not by me, I hasten to add), and the hard drive died a sad and sullen death.
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gerald_duck) I am now working from an Ubuntu Live install on a flash drive.
UNITY. IT MADE ME WANT TO CURL UP UNDER THE DESK AND CRY. I AM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING.
I do not WANT a system to guess at my preferences like that. I do not WANT a system to hide the functionality I'm looking for. I'm pretty sure this isn't just "wargle change! in this university!" - it really does feel as though the things that make me unhappy are precisely those than are designed to HAND-HOLD :D and MAKE IT NOT SCARY :D and BE MORE USERFRIENDLY :D :D :D -- but feel free to point out that I'm being inconsistent, a luddite, etc.
... not entirely coincidentally, earlier this week I found myself - for the first time ever - electing to use the command line rather than a GUI. lol me.
Or rather - I really, really dislike user interface changes that try to "streamline". I'm still using Firefox 3.6ish, because I took one look at Firefox 4 and, well, my instinctive reaction is "um NO".
I had just-about managed to get through the gritting-my-teeth phase of the previous Google redesign (no, really, I genuinely found the search bar at the bottom of each results page genuinely useful, and I really don't like the way that image results are now ENDLESS SCROLLING DOWN, and argh argh argh)... and along comes the next one, which makes me tense and unhappy and miserable ALL OVER AGAIN.
(Incidentally? They seem to have broken gmail webmail, in that it's now the case that if I open an e-mail to read it, scroll down to get to the bottom, and hit back... I am landed halfway down the mailbox page rather than, you know, up at the top. Where the other new messages are. Never mind the fact that it now takes two clicks to log out instead of one, unless you're in basic HTML mode.)
... and then a textbook was knocked onto the laptop I have with me out here (not by me, I hasten to add), and the hard drive died a sad and sullen death.
So (thank you for holding my hand,
gerald_duck) I am now working from an Ubuntu Live install on a flash drive.UNITY. IT MADE ME WANT TO CURL UP UNDER THE DESK AND CRY. I AM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING.
I do not WANT a system to guess at my preferences like that. I do not WANT a system to hide the functionality I'm looking for. I'm pretty sure this isn't just "wargle change! in this university!" - it really does feel as though the things that make me unhappy are precisely those than are designed to HAND-HOLD :D and MAKE IT NOT SCARY :D and BE MORE USERFRIENDLY :D :D :D -- but feel free to point out that I'm being inconsistent, a luddite, etc.
... not entirely coincidentally, earlier this week I found myself - for the first time ever - electing to use the command line rather than a GUI. lol me.
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Date: 2011-07-02 06:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-02 12:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-02 03:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-11 09:28 pm (UTC)(THEY CHANGED THE SYNTAX BETWEEN RELEASES SO ALL THE CONVERSATIONS GOOGLE SHOWS UP FROM, OH, 2004 ARE WILDLY INACCURATE. WHY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.)
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Date: 2011-07-04 02:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-04 09:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-04 09:59 pm (UTC)Incidentally, a quick test suggests that apt-get remove unity, while tempting, leaves the system in a state where you can still start a Unity session, but don't get a launcher (and hence any easy means of, say, logging out), so I wouldn't recommend it.
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Date: 2011-07-05 06:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-05 01:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-04 09:31 pm (UTC)Under the heading "What do you like best about the new version?" I replied "It can be reverted to the 'classic' interface". I don't mind if they mess with it as long as I can revert it to the one I know...
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Date: 2011-07-04 10:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-04 11:59 pm (UTC)