{"id":906,"date":"2012-04-29T13:53:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T01:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=906"},"modified":"2012-04-29T13:53:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T01:53:39","slug":"ubuntu-precise-pangolin-and-unity-im-a-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/ubuntu-precise-pangolin-and-unity-im-a-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Precise Pangolin and Unity &#8211; I&#8217;m a Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading to Precise was by far the easiest Ubuntu upgrade I&#8217;ve ever undertaken. Almost everything Just Worked (VirtualBox, Netbeans debugging, Eclipse, SQLyog under Wine, Firefox, Thunderbird, ) and the only gotcha was that I needed to reinstall MySQL server (upgraded to 5.5). But that was very easy and all my existing local databases were there. My wife&#8217;s upgrade and the upgrade of the notebook also went very well.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite changes:<\/p>\n<p>A launcher on my second desktop so less far to move the mouse when working on the right-hand monitor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_desktop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_desktop.jpg\" alt=\"Precise Desktop\" title=\"Precise Desktop\" width=\"550\" height=\"186\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_desktop.jpg 550w, http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_desktop-300x101.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dash is much more useful &#8211; most of my tasks are 1 click away instead of 2:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_new_dash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_new_dash.jpg\" alt=\"Very useful Dash\" title=\"Very useful Dash\" width=\"550\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_new_dash.jpg 550w, http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_new_dash-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/precise_new_dash-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortcuts are automatic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/automatic_shortcuts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/automatic_shortcuts.jpg\" alt=\"Automatic Shortcuts\" title=\"Automatic Shortcuts\" width=\"282\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-910\" srcset=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/automatic_shortcuts.jpg 282w, http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/automatic_shortcuts-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The HUD looks promising but I haven&#8217;t really given it a work out yet.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: very happy with the refinements to Unity and my best desktop experience ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading to Precise was by far the easiest Ubuntu upgrade I&#8217;ve ever undertaken. Almost everything Just Worked (VirtualBox, Netbeans debugging, Eclipse, SQLyog under Wine, Firefox, Thunderbird, ) and the only gotcha was that I needed to reinstall MySQL server (upgraded &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/ubuntu-precise-pangolin-and-unity-im-a-fan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}