Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity

[Richard Pieri]

On May 11, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
> Meh. Top of the screen isn't all that inconvenient to me. Its always
> in the exact same place, so finding it with a simple muscle memory
> trained flick of the mouse/touchpad/whatever is rather quick.

This, in spades.  Consistency is a hallmark of good UI design.  I have yet to see an X desktop that manages to do it right.  Convenience is nice to have -- the very definition of "convenience" -- but consistency should never be sacrificed.  This is a lot of why I have come to hate every X desktop that I've ever used.  Every one of them has some number of applications that discard consistency, usually because the developers think that standard UI elements aren't needed with the more convenient UIs that they have thrown together.  They are wrong.

--Rich P.