Comment 183 for bug 527458

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:37, Andrea Ratto <email address hidden> wrote:
> I hate the me-menu and the session button without icons.
> This indicator technology has potential but is incomplete and not customizable to fit all users' needs. It's five years and still this distro is managed like a beta of something yet to come.

I don't "hate" them, but sincerely, I don't use the me menu. I do
social networking on different sites totally separated as one e.g. is
for private use and another for office/work. And I don't either want
to configure all my logins within a single service collecting all my
login information. I use KeePassX so I even don't have a problem with
logging in to different sites.

From my point of view the me-menu could be completely dumped. I would
have already deleted it from the panel if it wouldn't show the
logged-in username there which I like (e.g. at home 3 people are using
the same PC). Either none of those I converted to Ubuntu is using it.
Most people don't use that much different social networking sites.
Most private users are in Facebook and for business since all those
services are trying to get you being a paying member, I see reduced
interest of people being in XING or LinkedIn. But I find the me-menu a
good idea for those who participate in many communities.

> I own the panel and the whole screen. I want to decide exactly what lives there and where to place it.

I tend to agree with you, but there should be a meaningful default. I
do switch a lot of people to Ubuntu and I don't want to "design" the
panel each time again and again. I want a good default that I don't
need to change anyway for the 80% of "normal" users. I am a GTD freak
and of course I do more hacking to my system.

> Linux desktop's problem is just that 90% of the programs are 90%
> complete. Fixing bugs, adding small features and completing one program
> after the other is all that is needed.
> Not much glory in that, but
> that's what will make linux desktop actually usable

Full ACK!
That said, it is already usable - it's just, that those small things
remind me too much to the old windows days that were full of smaller
or larger annoyances.

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Martin Wildam

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