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I tried unity in 10.10 and found it to be cumbersome. I was shocked when they announced they were moving to it for 11.04.

But, it looks like it's undergone a few improvements.

(Strangely, I know,) I trust the people working on Ubuntu to make rational decisions. It looks like unity pulled through.

>>zbanks+(OP)
I tried Unity in 10.10 too. But, it seems much more polished and usable now.

One real plus in 11.04, is the installer. Really convenient.

>>zbanks+(OP)
I have to say that both Unit and Windows 7's desktop bar look absolutely horrendous to me. I haven't used either, so I can't tell if this leads to some surprising productivity boost but there's something about the space-consuming giant-kiddy-icons that make me think it will only work against me.

I don't have any problem right now with the size of the icons, but screen estate is always an issue. Window organisation, as it has been for the last 15 years, seems like it has much better room for optimisation.

Other choice have also seemed a bit arbitrary - like moving the power options to the status bar, whilst also moving the window controls away from the status bar. Mouse movement has increased in my experience.

>>sambe+21
The key thing with any system is to make sure you move the bar to the left/right of the screen. Almost every screen has stacks of horizontal real estate but never enough vertical.

And by doing that -- the win7 icons don't bother me in the slightest.

>>nrbafn+d
Unity in 11.04 is a different beast than the thing in 10.10 netbook. Unity11.04 is rewritten as a Compiz plugin for performance reasons. Unity10.10 was based on Mutter/Clutter and suffered poor performance b/c of that (among other reasons).

Anyone who used Unity in 10.10 should give 11.04 a new and fair shot since they are 100% different things.

>>finger+b2
The only issue with that is if you don't have a spiffy OpenGL video card. Mutter and Clutter have come a very long way since the decision not to use them.

>>whatus+P1
That is certainly true, and it does seem to be on the side by default. I have a netbook-like Vaio with Wubi install that will provide quite a good test before upgrading my main PC - always lacking on the vertical. For me it doesn't take away from the ugliness: Ubuntu was starting to look really slick and "pro" with its black bars and smart new font. Those garish icons always screaming at me bring to mind a laptop covered in stickers and a keyboard so riddled with extra rubber Interweb buttons that you're scared to touch it. Of course, everything should have it's chance. I just wonder whether the switch to default status is warranted.

Glad to see the downvote-disagree is becoming ever more prevalent! Obviously an opinion on the aesthetics is totally unproductive. Here we go again... k--;

>>steevd+K6
ahh thats where unity 2d comes in :) a brilliant move to include those who gnome shell said "too bad" too. expect to see more of qt in future ubuntu ui improvements