Comments on: Ubuntu System Panel Gives Quick Access To Your Applications

By: arthur

arthur — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:52:41 +0000

for some reason:

sudo cp /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/usp/plugins/_keybind64.so _keybinder.so

doesn’t work. The directory is there, though the file isn’t

Any ideas?

By: fgfgfg

fgfgfg — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:17:28 +0000

Yuck, I don’t understand why someone would like to use panel like that. That’s awful, messy and impractical.

By: Ananth

Ananth — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Golly, thats a lot of options for configuration. Let me see how it works.

By: Jorge Miramontes

Jorge Miramontes — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:55:57 +0000

This one looks a lot if not the same as mint menu, the one that comes with Linux Mint. Wonder if some of the same people is involved in development.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:20:19 +0000

It’s not a preference, it’s a matter of good design. Look at how quickly can you find something in a neatly organized “menu bar”, vs a mess of applications sorted by the order of install of their vendors in windows.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:40:44 +0000

The USP is meant to be a replacement app for the existing menu bar. As such, I feel that it is inappropriate to compare it with Gnome-Do as they are different in nature.

When compared to the existing menu bar in Gnome, the USP does provide an easier and much faster way to access to your various applications. I do agree that it looks like Windows “start bar”, but come to think of it, Windows has been using the same type of “Start bar” since Win 95, and KDE also uses the same type of Start bar, so there is really nothing bad about this form of design. It’s all boils down to individual preferences.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:18:16 +0000

Imho, this thing is quite horrible. Very poorly designed, and seems just a copy of the Windows “start” bar – which wasn’t boasting usability awards.

My vote goes to Gnome DO if you want “quick access to your applications” and not a screen mess.

By: LifeLocksmith

LifeLocksmith — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:31:44 +0000

Fantastic tool, anyone know how to assign the Windows key to bind with toggling the System Panel? I would also settle for Windows+Space

Thanks for the cool app!

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:31:38 +0000

I don’t think so. It is not even found in the repository, so I don’t think this is a planned replacement.

By: Dirk Gently

Dirk Gently — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:13:42 +0000

Nice review. I hadn’t come by this before. Gnome menu is in dire need of updating. Do you know is this a planned replacement for it?