The fact that the minimise, maximise, and close buttons move position in accordance with the size of the active window, while the other option remain in the global options menu, is annoying.
In the far right upper corner, there's the Ubuntu icon under which access to 'System Settings' etc can be found. When trying to select 'System Settings', it often happens that users accidentally hit 'Switch User Account' from the neighboring user accounts menu.
Reason:
The user accounts menu icon is directly next to the Ubuntu settings icon. And because the space these icons take up on the panel is so small, but the menu itself is much wider, it easily happens that users accidentally open the menu that is next to the left when trying to hit the first menu entry of the menu that was originally opened. This is because the menu entries start on the left side, of course. Users aim for these entries by making a diagonal move.
So, when making this diagonal move, they often accidentally hover over the neighboring user accounts menu if they don't move their mouse strictly vertical. This is very unintuitive and in the course of usage a thing users don't think of. And because this happens quickly and they expect to hit the desired menu entry, they also make a mouse-click right away. But then they end up hovering over the user account menu, thus opening it and accidentally clicking 'Switch User Account' (and effectively logging out *dang*).
Written by lauterzsolti the 23 May 12 at 08:42.
New
The Quickly development tool has a few nice templates to start a new graphical or cli app or unity lens project easily (and quickly) but it still doesn't have a template for application indicators.
Right now, -SUPER-f opens dash to search for files.
But if you want to open a folder, you must do the following:
1. -SUPER-f
2. type name
3. press the down arrow 4 times
4. -ENTER-
Step 3 is very cumbersome since I'm opening files often.
Written by miguelbrain the 26 Nov 12 at 18:43.
New
Common application icons are occupying an extra space in the Unity panel. For example, LibreOffice consists of four icons more one generic and all these should be grouped. Another example are the icons of the drives, should be grouped.