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Locally Integrated Menus Arriving in Ubuntu 14.04

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 23 2014, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the community-feedback-at-work dept.
kef writes "According to a blog post from the Unity desktop team, Ubuntu 14.04 will move the application menus back into the application windows, starting in Unity 7. Spread improvements, HighDPI support, new decorations, and the usual bug-fixes are also making it into the new LTS release. Is Unity starting to grow up?"
 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by keplr on Sunday February 23 2014, @07:12AM

    by keplr (2104) on Sunday February 23 2014, @07:12AM (#5106) Journal

    I might as well clean house and get rid of all the extra cruft a vanilla Ubuntu install pulls in. I don't need Ubuntu One or any of that Amazon crap, for example. I've been considering switching to a more technically "correct" distro like Debian for a while anyway. I just liked how Ubuntu had everything working by default (Flash, AV codecs, proper font rendering, compositing, et al).

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Koen on Sunday February 23 2014, @01:41PM

    by Koen (427) on Sunday February 23 2014, @01:41PM (#5177)

    Since you're considering going for XFCE, you might like Xubuntu: it does not have Ubuntu One (but it can be installed) nor the Amazon crap, but it still has what you liked about Ubuntu.

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  • (Score: 1) by useless on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:38PM

    by useless (426) on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:38PM (#5209)

    I would highly recommend cleaning house, just from personal experience. I had gotten lazy and just installed Ubuntu, thinking that I didn't want to spend all the extra time installing/configuring crap to get my laptop features working. After a while, the Ubuntu-y things started to annoy me more and more, my battery life/system response was shit, and that damn orange color they use everywhere is just ugly. It got to the point where I stopped using the damn thing and switched to an Android tablet w/ keyboard dock.

    Then I found myself with a free weekend, so I blew everything away and started over with a light weight Debian derivative that included non-free packages on install (I picked SparkyLinux because I have a long love affair with E, but any should work). To my surprise, not only did everything "just work" out of the box, battery life went up drastically (roughly by half), workflow improved, and I'm generally more happy. All that, and it took much less time (a couple hours) to install/setup than with Ubuntu. Haven't touched the tablet since.