Comments on: Ubuntu Lucid’s New Indicator Applet Is A Joke

By: Will

Will — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:52:43 +0000

Standardization of interface is good. Standardization on a bad interface is not.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:51:58 +0000

Amen, brother.

It even took a while to understand why I lost the volume applet when I thought I removed the mail icon. The interface is consistent, in that it is consistently unintuitive. Please revert to sane left/right click behaviorr — whether in a system tray, notification area or indicator applet.

By: Alex Cabal

Alex Cabal — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:26:25 +0000

Sorry, but “patch the source yourself” is not an acceptable answer for an everyday user like me who has better things to worry about. I will instead either turn the feature off or go to a different distro. But that’s the answer that many OSS people love throwing around when someone complains about their products instead of taking those complaints as valuable feedback!

By: vijay

vijay — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:22:43 +0000

you know, in the time it took you to bitch & moan about this you could have downloaded the source package, made a couple of changes to revert the behavior back to the way you liked it, and created a .deb binary of your new version to share your readers.

i agree, the implementation isn’t that great in 10.04, but looking at the design papers (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu) i think the philosophy behind this change, and the potential it has, is simply awesome.

By: Andrea R

Andrea R — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:32:45 +0000

I almost agree.
The sad part is that you can’t really remove it at all without loosing tray icons from some programs (transmission, bluetooth) and the battery monitor.

A PPA should be made with those packages recompiled without the indicator patches.

By: LaPeGa

LaPeGa — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:49:12 +0000

I’m agree with you. I think Ubuntu did a step backward in this theme (and others)… I HATE Indicate Applet!

By: Tack

Tack — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:26:16 +0000

Since upgrading to Lucid and switching to Empathy, I am constantly missing IMs because the notification system is so horrid.

I’m back to an old version of Pidgin that doesn’t know about the new indicator applet.

Sure the applet looks pretty, but it’s completely unusable.

By: Alex Cabal

Alex Cabal — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:04:00 +0000

You’re right, maybe it is time for me to switch. Too bad many of the other people who switched because of the bewildering and ill-planned changes in Lucid won’t bother complaining in the hopes of being heard.

By: jwash

jwash — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:35:29 +0000

I think, its great how ubuntu is shaping compared to any of the other os’es……. sorry

By: kirst

kirst — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:32:52 +0000

Please explain to me why you have the right to bitch and moan about minute details of an entire fully functional free-of-cost operating system that just gave you a free update that many people spent months working on. If using Ubuntu really raises your blood pressure this much then it’s probably a good time for you to switch to another distro.