[Ayatana] Feedback on Unity usability

["Carsten Agger" <agger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've now been using Unity both at home and at work for the last several days.

In general, everything works out fine, and I generally like it. I like the
dash, I like having icons in the dock, though the lack of good ways of
customizing the launchers there is not too elegant.

Needless to say it's a little rough around the edges, and that's OK. It's
a huge leap forward anyway.

I've still encountered a few problems which are potentially more
bothersome than roughness around the edges:

? I have a terminal launcher in the dock, inherited from my Gnome launcher
in 10.10. If I want to start two instances of the terminal, first I click
the terminal icon in the dock. Fine and good, it brings up the terminal.
Now I want to bring up another terminal. I click the icon in the dock, and
it brings the first terminal in focus. I click again, with the same
result. To start a terminal I can hit CTRL+ALT+T, but honestly, I think
clicking twice in the dock should achieve the same result.

? The new "thin" scrollbar is dangerous in some applications, notably in
Evolution. I'm thinking especially of the scroll bar between my mail
folders on the left and the list of emails on the right. If mouse control
slips just a little, all of a sudden you have grabbed and moved a folder
without seeing where it went! Once you've erroneously grabbed a folder,
Evolution can become unresponsive (I have 4GB of RAM and a quad core CPU,
but I also have many emails) and it's impossible to let go of it again
until you've moved it somewhere. This is not only annoying, it's
potentially damaging, especially for new users.

? The global menu does not seem to work in Gvim. I've subscribed to a bug
which I think is related to this. I know everything can be done with
direct commands in vim, but I've made Gvims menu part of my workflow, so
it's bothersome that it's suddenly gone.

thanks otherwise and keep up the good work,

Carsten

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