Hello guys, I hope this is the right forum to post this question? I have recently installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04 beta 2 on to my main desktop PC and have been trying to do a little evangelism for Linux with my family. My sister and her children have recently visited and they were impressed with the desktop that I was running as it was different than Windows and OSX that they run at home. My nieces statement was that it looked futuristic with the space theme.
Now they are MAC users and I wanted to help them navigate the OS easier so I switched to Cupertino in the MATE tweak tool. However they were not that impressed. Other than the dock at the bottom of the screen the interface is not that similar.
They were a little frustrated initially that the task bar buttons were on the âwrong sideâ of the window and that the menu was inside of the active window and not at the top of the screen.
Now I noticed after trying âMutinyâ that there is the old school global menu from Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier.
My suggestion is (if possible) that when a user selects Cupertino as the desktop selection that you default the windows controls to the left and use the global menu as in Mutiny. I think this would make a much better first impression to users coming from a MAC. It is the little things like this that go a long way and familiarity of interface is a big selling point for potential converts.
Anyway that is my suggestion, I hope that you give it some consideration, I do feel it would help users coming over from the Apple world.
Kind regards,
James