Re: [PLUG] Cinnamon desktop?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:33:39 -0500
> From: Amul Shah <amul@amulz.com>

> The thing I like is that pressing the windows key brings up the
> application launcher and then all I have to do is type the binary
> that I want.

Yeah Cinnamon does that too. That's what I meant by "it combines the 
best of both worlds with menu discovery and typing speed."  See the 
screen-shots at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_%28user_interface%29 or 
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/.


> > (And I don't care what you Mac people say, I hate the Mac GUI.)
>
> JP, there is no accounting for taste. ;) Gnome2 always looked like a
> poor copy of early Mac OS with start menu in the top left.

Wow, I'd forgotten about that.  I see your point, but I'm not sure I'd 
agree fully, but I also can't really explain why.  As you say, there's 
no accounting for taste.  :-)


> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 08:50:59 -0500
> From: Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>

[...]
> I used to totally hate Unity, but I love Ubuntu.  I have to say that Unity
> has grown on me, and I don't think it is nearly as bad as I first thought
> it was.
[...]

Yeah, it grew on me too, for certain form-factors, uses and users.

Later,
JP
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