These are not "reviews" they are BIG PICTURE comments.., I'd like to get comments going if possible.
A) In my humble opinion, both Gnome3 and Unity have a "hidden agenda" that is not discussed much maybe outside the developer's IRCs etc. If there are ARTICLES on this I would greatly appreciate having links so folks could see them.
But....I think that the "hidden agenda" is that both approaches are intended to provide, as well as possible, an "interface" that can be used on all hardware platforms from the smart phone to the desktop or a wide screen t.v.
a) Both of them provide LARGE displays of stuff like
i) In Unity when one clicks the little Ubuntu icon on the top right in Unity, one gets a "folder" that covers half of the screen with very LARGE icons for, say, "internet apps". When one clicks that one gets normal sized icons in a very LARGE folder display.
ii) in Gnome 3 when one clicks "applications" one gets a full screen display with even LARGER icons for ALL the applications, one can click a menu at the side that give a group like "internet apps" and gets in a folder type display large icons to click. Just think the "gnome menu" writ VERY large!
b) Both provide an easy to see and workable approach to "multiple desktops". And in both cases the way to work with the desktops is "scalable" so it can be used from a cell phone sized screen to a desktop.
i) Unity provides an icon in the bar on the left with "four screens" on it, if one clicks near the middle, one gets all four screens as large screens, covering about a fourth of the main screen.
ii) Gnome3 provides the "bar" at the right which is partly hidden which shows the "desktops" as "windows" and a new window appears when one activates a "new" app such as firefox. The new app is in it's own new window and one can move it to another window or add other apps to it. A new empty window is provided below the windows that are being used.
In other words Unity provides four desktops as a default and Gnome3 provides them "on demand".
iii) Both provide, without a settings situation, the option of having an app on one or multiple desktops.
iv) BOTH allow one to easily DRAG an app from one window to the other to create "workspaces"...
B) Two oddments of comments.
i) Unity has a REALLY new feature in that when Firefox is opened......The FIREFOX BAR....history, favourites etc. is in the UNITY PANEL!!! This reduces the "real estate footprint" of the browser...
And....I'll just make a wager of a rum 'n coke in the tiki bar.... that if this works.....then a LOT of apps that have a relatively simple menu bar will have the menu bar moved to the Unity Panel. One problem, of course, being that if you have three things going at once which goes to the panel and which don't or do they all go there...don't know...
ii) If one buys into either of them as full time ways to doing things, especially the Gnome3 shell, things like Cairo dock and Docky will be kind of like "clutter" However, given that, Unity will be easiest to have something like Cairo dock on it because of the bottom and right sides of the screen being empty. Gnome3 will just be.... don't know..
iii) For folks with tired old eyes like me, both of them provide a very easy to see display on a regular desktop.
soooo comments from others that have used them or any article on the web about them being "scalable"?
woodsmoke
A) In my humble opinion, both Gnome3 and Unity have a "hidden agenda" that is not discussed much maybe outside the developer's IRCs etc. If there are ARTICLES on this I would greatly appreciate having links so folks could see them.
But....I think that the "hidden agenda" is that both approaches are intended to provide, as well as possible, an "interface" that can be used on all hardware platforms from the smart phone to the desktop or a wide screen t.v.
a) Both of them provide LARGE displays of stuff like
i) In Unity when one clicks the little Ubuntu icon on the top right in Unity, one gets a "folder" that covers half of the screen with very LARGE icons for, say, "internet apps". When one clicks that one gets normal sized icons in a very LARGE folder display.
ii) in Gnome 3 when one clicks "applications" one gets a full screen display with even LARGER icons for ALL the applications, one can click a menu at the side that give a group like "internet apps" and gets in a folder type display large icons to click. Just think the "gnome menu" writ VERY large!
b) Both provide an easy to see and workable approach to "multiple desktops". And in both cases the way to work with the desktops is "scalable" so it can be used from a cell phone sized screen to a desktop.
i) Unity provides an icon in the bar on the left with "four screens" on it, if one clicks near the middle, one gets all four screens as large screens, covering about a fourth of the main screen.
ii) Gnome3 provides the "bar" at the right which is partly hidden which shows the "desktops" as "windows" and a new window appears when one activates a "new" app such as firefox. The new app is in it's own new window and one can move it to another window or add other apps to it. A new empty window is provided below the windows that are being used.
In other words Unity provides four desktops as a default and Gnome3 provides them "on demand".
iii) Both provide, without a settings situation, the option of having an app on one or multiple desktops.
iv) BOTH allow one to easily DRAG an app from one window to the other to create "workspaces"...
B) Two oddments of comments.
i) Unity has a REALLY new feature in that when Firefox is opened......The FIREFOX BAR....history, favourites etc. is in the UNITY PANEL!!!
This reduces the "real estate footprint" of the browser...And....I'll just make a wager of a rum 'n coke in the tiki bar.... that if this works.....then a LOT of apps that have a relatively simple menu bar will have the menu bar moved to the Unity Panel. One problem, of course, being that if you have three things going at once which goes to the panel and which don't or do they all go there...don't know...
ii) If one buys into either of them as full time ways to doing things, especially the Gnome3 shell, things like Cairo dock and Docky will be kind of like "clutter" However, given that, Unity will be easiest to have something like Cairo dock on it because of the bottom and right sides of the screen being empty. Gnome3 will just be.... don't know..
iii) For folks with tired old eyes like me, both of them provide a very easy to see display on a regular desktop.
soooo comments from others that have used them or any article on the web about them being "scalable"?
woodsmoke
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