Comments on: Ubuntu MeMenu to Encourage Social Media Broadcasting

By: jg

jg — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:05:14 +0000

so no ones forcing you to use it

By: Dashiell Menard

Dashiell Menard — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:33:26 +0000

You seem to misunderstand the nature of a linux distro. Canonical does not develop most of the applications that go into ubuntu, and when one of them starts sucking, they are going to stop including it.

3G networking and sound are difficult for canonical to control, as most hardware companies are stingy about releasing enough information for anyone else to write drivers, and don’t care enough about linux to write a good driver/any driver at all. With graphics and wireless LAN and USB, the interface is largely standardized, or only a few companies dominate the field, so providing working drivers is easy. 3G networking and sound, as well as things like webcams, have no such standards and have a huge number of competing companies, and so including working driver support for all of them is difficult. A few releases ago we could blame Pulseaudio or Flash, but those issues are largely resolved now, and there isn’t much Canonical or the OSS community can do.

By the by, thanks to d0od for posting a screen.

By: Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:50:03 +0000

Because it is much more convenient to be notified of changes via an applet instead of keeping a web browser open to the facebook or twitter pages constantly. Yes you get a more complete experience by going to the web page. But these applets are not meant to give you a full experience. It is just a convenient way to not only get notified, but also quickly set status without having to open a page all the time.

By: Kel

Kel — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:16:54 +0000

I agree with itsjustarumour:

I for one do not use facebook or twitter, a huge waste of time.

Ubuntu, Please stop wasting time on these useless features and fix things like sound and 3G network problems. Please stop switching applications at every release, stick with the same applications with every release and make them work properly.

By: itsjustarumour

itsjustarumour — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:16:36 +0000

+1 for Zack Carr’s comment. I don’t give a rats a*re about Twitter either. And why would I want to use an applet/widget for using Facebook on a Desktop PC? I have a gorgeous 24″ screen and a Quad-core machine, so using Facebook in a browser window at full size is perfectly adequate, and actually a much better way of working. Trying to reinvent the wheel, perhaps? I really wish Ubuntu would stop spending developer time on these new features and concentrate on fixing bugs and things that are broken or don’t work properly yet. Things that put a downer on my Ubuntu user experience – 3G networking using USB sticks for example, and the whole list of Xorg and Nautilus bugs that affect me every – single – day…

By: d0od

d0od — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:26:11 +0000

Having been using it for several weeks now i can’t praise it enough! It really is addictive to use…

Picture of what it currently looks like for anyone interested: -

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/S36xUtkjIaI/AAAAAAAAF6E/cVh76eSqOes/s1600-h/Selection_002.png

By: ackondro

ackondro — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:45:39 +0000

All the MeMenu is is the next evolution of a panel applet. They have been moving in this direction for a couple of releases. Where have you been?
Anyway, it’s just a panel applet, so don’t add it if you don’t want it.

By: bjd

bjd — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:04:00 +0000

Hear hear! to what poster no.1 just said.

By: Zack Carr

Zack Carr — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:03:44 +0000

Please, Canonical, PLEASE make the “MeMenu” either uninstallable (easily), or quickly DISABLED. Some of us don’t follow web trends or give a rat’s a** about Facebook & Twitter.