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Suggest a Desktop Environment and/or customizations

destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, and have been playing around with the [default] Unity, Gnome 3 Shell, and KDE. I haven't been satisfied with complete progress toward my UX goals, but Gnome 3 did seem to get my fairly close.

Here's what I'm ultimately looking for:

to sum it up, sort of a Mac-like experience.

I want a top-panel that supports a true Global Menu (it would be helpful if it played well with triple monitors). It would be great if it could have Unity/Gnome3-like icons/menus/notification icons/system tray. Also, I'd like to have all notification icons up there (unlike Gnome Shell by default, which puts them in an auto-hide bottom panel).

I also want that top panel to have a drop-down Finder/start-menu-like system menu. I sort of achieved that with a drop-down menu in Gnome Shell, and was able to mostly push the overall "Shell" menu to only show up by pressing the Super key. It worked out to be a nice Expose-like presentation.

Speaking of that, if we were to go with Gnome 3, I'd like to be able to continue that concept. It would be nice to have a drop-down menu but have access to the full-screen app selection, a la OS X's Launchpad, when so desired (say, by the press of a key or selecting an icon on a dock, be it Cairo or what have you).

And I'd like to have a fancy 3D desktop, using Compiz or whatever.
 
Jodell88 said:
You're gonna fail.

If you want global menus then you should Unity because that has the most support.

If you want to customize gnome shell then you should go to https://extensions.gnome.org/
Click to expand...

That's how I've been customizing Shell. 😉

Part of the issue will be needing 12.10 (I think) for proper Gnome 3.6 support. That will be soon.


As for Unity - my main gripe with Unity is ultimately focused on one major gripe: I cannot get rid of their damn dock. I wouldn't mind getting rid of it entirely, having my own on the bottom, and having either a drop-down menu or a button on the top bar (or Super key) that brought up the lens menus. And, of course, keeping the command menu thing (Alt key).

I have the dock set to autohide, but that only goes so far when it always pops up regardless. And Unity, overall, doesn't appear to be very user-configurable.
 
You're setting up a torture machine for me. Including every feature I hate in one package :^D

Look into removing the Unity dock. EVERYTHING can be removed if you care to put in the time. It might mean recompiling packages, but everything should be customizable.
 
Not really Ubuntu, but you might want to take a look at MacPup, a Puppy Linux derivative with a Mac like desktop. Me, I'm going a different way - XFCE4 is my desktop.
 
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