48 Hours Enduring Ubuntu 5.04

ceswiedler writes "Matthew Thomas lists 69 interface issues he has with the new Ubuntu release "Hoary Hedgehog", ranging from desktop and Nautilius behavior to Firefox and Evolution. They're serious interface issues, he claims, but he also says that Ubuntu 5.04 "is the first Linux-based system I have encountered that is tolerable enough for me to use for everyday work." That's a rather backhanded compliment...the suprising thing is that he's an interface designer working for Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu." As Thomas mentions, "Many of these flaws probably exist in other Gnome-based systems, and some of them also exist in Microsoft Windows and/or Mac OS."

Matthew Thomas is a lunatic

[alecf]

He was the scourge of the mozilla project until he finally left in a huff.

He's a whiner and a complainer who thinks that the concept of compromise is an exercise for the weak. Put simply, he doesn't live in the real world.

I could write 69 reasons that any software sucks, that doesn't mean I'm someone who deserves a story on slashdot.

Re:Definitely Pedantic

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

He does have a few good points though, such as:

• Caps Lock: Please include a way to easily disable this useless key. Nothing like accidently going into caps lock mode when you're working in Vi..
• Gnome "Save Session": Please fix it or lose it. This feature is broken since forever, and even once it's disabled it still tries to restore the session from the "last save."

Re:List of issues I have with Matthew Thomas' List

[Siniset]

reboot is a term that refers to "booting" a computer, and is not entirely clear to all people, especially people who started using computers in the last 3 or 4 years. Restart would probably be clearer for most users, and since you or I would always know what both mean, it makes more sense to use restart than reboot.

And to the other word, username is not really a word. I mean, it is, but I would agree with him that it would look better if it was written as "User Name" or something like that.

Yes, some of his complaints do boil down to a matter of him just becoming comfortable with the software (the send button on gaim complaint comes to mind...) but i think a lot of people agree that there is a lack of consistency in Linux Distros, but not a ton of effort has been put into the discussion of it, as far as it applies to specific "bugs". I think this is the next step for linux. Linux has most of the software and hardware support it needs, now it needs distro makers to help create distros that have ironed out the inconsistencies in the user interfaces and software.

Re:He got one right

[timster121]

You can change this behavior. Go to about:config and change "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll" to true. This will select the contents of the address bar when you click on it. Problem solved.