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[Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>]

This video is a good example of what you descibe (elderly person getting
confused after hitting the workspace switcher)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ltE_ekc8kE8

It was interesting that he kept going to the workspace switcher icon for
some reason, and didn't find the dash until 23 minutes in. Obviously this
isn't necessarily indicative of unity itself being particularly confusing
(This same guy is in videos using win8/osx and is just as confused)

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I've been sitting my elderly parents down in front of 12.04 Beta because
> I plan to transition them off 10.04 onto 12.04 stable in May. I think
> ultimately (despite them having to learn some new ways of doing things)
> Unity will be easier for them to use overall. Thank you team Ubuntu for
> being brave to try something new and working so hard to make Unity a
> success!
>
> One problem that is cropping up is that my parents do NOT understand
> Spaces. Frankly, they never will. Unfortunately, I can find no way to
> remove the Space-Icon from the Launcher. And if/when a parent accidentally
> clicks the Spaces icon the desktop changes and they get confused and don't
> know what happened.
>
> Any way to remove the Space icon from the Launcher? If not, don't you
> think it would be a good move to add the ability to remove that icon from
> the Launcher for situations like this?
>
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