Contributor neil1987

I wanted to start using Compiz for a while, but when I finally got a supported video card I was mostly disappointed. Nearly all effects are just an eye candy, they DO NOT increase my productivity.

Wobbly windows make no sense. Shadows under tooltips make no sense, Expose-clone is slow and not polished (need to double click), window resizing is WORSE than on a default non-accelerated desktop - it's not instant, you get this "blue rectangle" than you work on to discover later how the *actual* window will repaint itself. The list goes on and on. In the end the entire thing does not really do anything useful: after initial excitement wears out, you're left with a sluggish desktop (the speed is not caused by video card, most of the effects are intrusive).

I beliveve that the PURPOSE of Copmiz needs to be re-discovered. The following question needs to be asked: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE?

It needs to be a real user's problem, the kind we face every day. Non-wobbling windows is NOT a problem.

An intro like this (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=aQckYTA9EvU) would be nice, especially for Windows guys who will just say "wow" and find Linux a good system before they used it.

Also an Ubuntu tutorial would be nice, because most people don#t want to read Wiki pages. It's like a computer game. You don't read the manual, you want to play now.

If you can understand German, here's a better explanation of it: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/157332/

Many projects related to Ubuntu are using the Tango icon guidelines: GNOME, Gimp, F-spot, OpenOffice, Firefox 3... just to name a few.

Currently Ubuntu's default icon theme is Human, which in turn is not based on the Tango Guidelines. This means that applications are not integrated into the lock and feel of the whole system as well as they could. Also, Human is not 100% complete, so it still uses some Tangoish icons from GNOME. This leads to a mix of Human, Tango and Old-GNOME look.

Ubuntu should provide a minimal Tango-based theme which just replaces some of the very visible icons, like folders for example. For the rest, either the GNOME or Tango icon theme can be used as a fallback. This way, Ubuntu would keep a special branding but very much improve the overall visual consistency of the OS.