User talk:Phantom Hoover/Thoughts on Karmic


 * On the other hand they replaced the volume panel applet with a tray applet, which appears in a random position in the tray, and can't be middle clicked to mute. It's also inconsistent with the other dropdown applets (messaging menu, status menu) in that it doesn't get a highlight when clicked (the network-manager applet has the same problems).
 * The grey tray icons are a lame attempt at copying Win7's b&w tray icons, they look ugly and don't really work that well when you use a third party app because the order is random, and because gnome-panel can't hide icons (a feature the gnome devs refuse to implement on philosophical grounds)
 * They replaced Pidgin with Empathy, which is half-backed and lacks a lot of features. Of course you could switch back to Pidgin, but the new status applet doesn't let you, because it's tied into Empathy and will log you out of Pidgin and log you into a hidden empathy process (which is a nice idea btw, you can be logged in without having an im app running). Empathy even hides Pidgin from the messaging menu once you start it, and only when you start Pidgin from elsewhere will it reappear there.
 * Worse, the status applet doesn't even work any more, I can't switch to invisible, it sometimes only works in one direction, etc. It worked better before the beta.
 * The new default theme lacks application icons in window title bars because one developer decided they were "tacky".
 * It also has a scrollbar that violates Fitts' law because it looks cooler that way.
 * The new bootup sequence was pretty ambitious, but in the end they failed to implement it in time and reverted to something that's worse than before -- Nx  / talk 13:53, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, some of the UI tweaks are rather irritating. I was only trying out the new decorations; I think I'll go back to the customised one I had. 13:56, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * And I never use IM anyway, so the Pidgeon stuff is not an issue. 13:57, 1 November 2009 (UTC)