So they changed the known brownish ubuntu usual look into a purple dark looking theme. Which i find very nice and more friendly than the previous ubuntu theme.
Then comes the change of the location of the task bar ( close , minimize , maximize Bar ) from the normal ubuntu – windows right , to the -Mac- Left position as shown in the previous picture.
Menu Bar
These looked good to me, Although I don’t encourage the copying from other operating systems, as it is adds negative points to ubuntu. That pissed some People in open source community that made them do a script to return the buttons to the right position again !
Empathy
What I personally love about the 10.04 ubuntu is the new communication manager ( chat , Social Network and mail ) all in one icon on the main task bar on top. It is just simple and easy to use. It is called Empathy, Kinda a clone from the well known communication agent ‘Pidgin’ . However it still have some bugs that you have to report and re-report everytime u startup the machine.
Software Center
And Finally the Download Agent – Previously known as Add-Remove Programs , it is more user-friendly now, and have more programs to install.
I’ve been trying it for a week now , that’s what i like so far , in web development and other technical issues could be in an up coming review. This was just a quick ( end-user ) Review. Hope you liked it .
I can’t seem to remember where i saw that gui, its starts with a Mac and ends with OSX :P, but dont get me wrong am a loyal ubuntu’er down to the server edition 😀
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I agree with omar 10.04 even has purple screens on it’s icons :O. I fortaunately quickly changed my window control positions back to the right and changed the theme to dust. Bad Mac! 😛
But on a serious note the ubuntu team really gotta stop this mac phase. Linux is not Unix and Linux fans don’t want it to be :).
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i prefer Pidgin…it’s suits most of my needs…even if a had a few problems with pidgin inthe 9.04 version…not it works fine on 9.10 vers. emphaty is to much simple….
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Yea , pidgin is really nice .. i started using it after i had many errors from empathy.
and you are correct empathy is too simple . and i think that’s why it is successful.
Too many options and they are all good !! i hate that lol
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