Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubunto Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <9fovtmF8gaU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1318554531 31989 84.45.235.129 (14 Oct 2011 01:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:08:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8775 On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:27:29 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote: > On 13.10.2011 19:44, Roedy Green wrote: >> There is a new release of Ubuntu Linux. >> Is there anything Java programmers should know? > > Not that I am aware of - unless you consider Gnome 2 mandatory for Java > development. I haven't worked with Gnome 3 yet and will certainly > install it in a VM before going life. :-) > I've been using Gnome 3 (in Fedora 15) for the last couple of weeks. It is reasonably stable, but has so many rough edges and unfortunate design decisions that I consider it to be worse that any Gnome version I've used to date - and I've been using Gnome since Redhat 7, i.e. pre Fedora. This is unfortunate, especially as the F15 switch from the old System V init service management system to systemd is a very good move: F15 with even the disimproved F14 version of Gnome 2 would have been a genuine step forward. Gnome 3.2 is due with F16 but the omens aren't good: the release beta release notes witter on about: - reinstating icons for removable drives (well duh - omitting them from G3 was a truly braindead decision) - reinstating the G2 virtual desktop switching menu bar switcher (duh again - swapping from a single mouse click to 'hit the Windows key', type at least the first three letters of the app name, hit RETURN is an improvement????) - adding a built-in IM feature instead of fixing the awful launcher builder (you can create, delete, but NOT edit a launcher definition) - no recognition that the combo of keystrokes and mouse clicks G3 needs to do anything is slower than the equivalent G2 sequences or that this needs fixing. - aparently no fix for the utterly infuriating way that putting the mouse cursor anywhere near the top left screen corned drops you out of the desktop and into the Activity page, where another keystroke or mouse click is needed to get back to the desktop. What makes this much worse is the G3 habit of starting new apps with their window at top left on the screen, almost guaranteeing that the first time you try to use the File or Edit drop-down menus you'll end up, swearing loudly, in the bloody Activities page for the nth time. Arrrgh! If you don't mind using XFCE I'd strongly suggest you follow Linus' advice and use that instead of G3. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |