I have just updated to newest Ubuntu. Here are some points of interest:
Thes removed the shutdown option from system menu. You now HAVE to use the stupid applet. IS this a GNOME or an Ubuntu decision. Personally i dont like this applet for shutting down. I always used the system menu. The applet looks so [...]
GNOME has its vision of what a online desktop should be. I have another. The idea is to find a replacement for:
VPN network access
XDMCP graphical logins
SSH logins
etc.
My idea – and I am sure I am not the only one having it is to have rather a local login to a desktop – but then be [...]
I suggest that people start working on an alternative GNOME panel now. I have seen some suggestions on a GNOME wiki page, but I think most directions are very wrong. Like what you see here:
Essentially these are imitations of the fancy Mac panel. But I think that the Max panel does [...]
I like that new fusa applet, because they implemented something I had wished for a long time – you now can tell with one applet what you current status is and it tells that different applications like pidgin and empathy. Like the clock applet that now also shows weather information this allows the user to [...]
