Am I the only one who doesn’t like Jaunty?
| April 25th, 2009So today, I upgraded my Ubuntu installation to version 9.04, “Jaunty Jackalope”. At first glance, it seems to be a very well polished release. The new notifications look nice, it boots faster, and it has a slew of updated packages. You can read a full review here.
But underneath all these additions, there are a few things I’m not impressed with. The first and foremost, is that Tilda has broken. It takes ages to appear upon pressing the hotkey, and if you have the animated drop down enabled it takes even lonker and stutteringly. I searched for a replacement but I couldn’t find anything =[
The new notifications are confusing, too. They don’t dissapear for me when I click on them, I have to hover my mouse over them to make them go away =[ This takes a few more seconds of my time where I could be doing something else!
Compiz has become slightly stuttery from time to time, especially with the “maximise window” effect. The window seems to zoom in for a second, and it freezes there. It didn’t do that before!
A another couple of minor annoyances such as the width of my menus increasing and upon clicking shut down bringing up another button to press before it shuts down (WTF!? I know that when I click shut down I want my computer to shut down!)
Apart from that, it’s a nice release, but I do think Intrepid was nicer!
I’ve been using guake as a drop-down terminal for some time now, so if you’re looking to replace tilda, I’d give it a look at least.
I tried Guake the other day because it was recommended in TuxRadar. I couldn’t change the hotkey and get it to work. Otherwise it looked really good, though =] Maybe I’ll try again!
Also, I’ve already got used to most of the changes with Jaunty :P