Okay, so Ubuntu has moved the close, minimize and maximise buttons to the left. I know there’s been a huge controversy around this since one of the early alphas. Well, I don’t care so much about that. You get used to it after a while, the only problem I see is that there’s a lot going on around the close button, like the file menu, and if the window is maximized, the gnome-menu, so you might easily close a window accidentally.
That’s not the biggest problem with the design though, that is that the active area for the close button is bigger than the button itself. Look at the image below:
You might think that there’s a bit of titlebar to the left of the close-button, right? So you could think that you could click-and-drag here to move the window, right?
Well, if you try to do that, the window will close! The close button goes all the way to the edge of the window, even though it doesn’t look like it does.
I hope this will be fixed prior to release of the final version of Ubuntu 10.04
When I’m travelling, I often visit the kiosks at the airport, to see what they have of intresting magazines, specially Linux and Digital Photography magazines. I was visiting Trondheim last weekend, and on the way back, while I were waiting for my plane back to Bergen, I was looking on the shelves at Narvesen at Trondheim airport, Værnes. There were actually a quite good choice of Linux magazines, and one specially catched my eye. I had heard about the new Ubuntu User magazine at the Ubuntu UK podcast, which by the way is a pretty good podcast. But I didn’t expect to find it in a news-stand in Norway, I thought I had to order it from the UK.
So I bought it.
The magazine was priced to around £7, which would translate to about 74 norwegian kroner, or €8.20. But at when I got to the counter, I had to pay 210 NOK for it, which is about £19 or €23. In comparison, one years subscription to the magazine is €29.90 if you live in Europe outside the UK, which would include Norway. €29.90 is 269NOK or £25.5
This is a total rip-off. I understand that Narvesen needs a margin for magazines with a narrow group of readers, but this pricing is insane.
I have a laptop with a rather low resolution screen. It is limited to 1024x768px, so I have had a bit of envy for the Ubuntu eee users that have a nice and practical user interface for smaller screens. I have for a while already removed the taskbar, since I realized that I didn’t use it that much, and it steals a whopping 24px of the vertical screenspace.
I discovered the netbook remix, that is the user interface in Ubuntu eee right after Ubuntu 8.10 was launched. I had already updated to 8.10, and the Netbook remix wasn’t available for 8.10 at the time.
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