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Comment on How to make wicd systray to appear in GNOME on Ubuntu 11.10 / How to fix missing wicd network manager systray on Ubuntu by deckoff.

Dont think LibreOffice is poor quality, but do think IS ugly and needs re-design now. 🙂
Unity – well I think about installing it to an old PC and giving the pC to my mother – if she copes fast with it, this should be a good sign. I do think that more experienced users have problems with “does not look like windows“.
If Canonical brings much more people to the platform, there is no way 100% of them to be interested in the philosophy of GNU/Linux (or anything). One has to decide what is better 5 users and all of G/L evangelist, or 1000 users and 20 of them G/L evangelists. I hope that more users will bring more developers thus more quality

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How to make wicd systray to appear in GNOME on Ubuntu 11.10 / How to fix missing wicd network manager systray on Ubuntu
PS Do you run the provided script at start-up. Or you just re-started once?


How to make wicd systray to appear in GNOME on Ubuntu 11.10 / How to fix missing wicd network manager systray on Ubuntu
I disagree with you here 🙂
I like Unity from day one – according to me it is well designed. It removes the clutter.
Lets have a look at Android, the most successful Linux distro up to date – it can be modded easily, can be tweaked to the needs of the power user, and still the newbie can pick-up the phone and start using it without any need of reading big books.
This is what Unity ( I think) is trying to do – providing an easy to use interface with powerful OS, ready to be tweaked lying under it.
The main problem for me with Ubuntu is BUGs and lack of polished software – GIMP is really powerful, 85% of the users can easily go with it but still people are downloading illegally Photoshop. Same story with LibreOffice and MS Office.
Look should too improved.
I do think that more people should be brought to linux, and easy to use OS out of the box is key. This way people will be introduce to the philosophy of OSS and Linux, so I dont think Ubuntu is doing any harm to the comunity


How to make wicd systray to appear in GNOME on Ubuntu 11.10 / How to fix missing wicd network manager systray on Ubuntu
The best thing I like about wicd is that it can execute scripts pre-interface-down and post interface up, based on wireless id, which meand I can write a script which mounts my NAS based on my home wireless id( only when I am at home) and unmounts it every time my PC sleeps or shutdowns.
Thus, the PC never thinks a NAS is mounted when it is not, and a missing mountpoint might be a cause for system VERY slow shutdown and freezes, even in Ubuntu. I had to give up Wicd for the reasons stated in your post( not able to add a wicd tray icon), and some bugs in the main interface when trying to add scripts.
I will give your solution a try, strangely, the script does the same thing I tried when I moved to Ubuntu 11.10, adding the tray icon to white list, probably some fixes where pushed both in Unity and wicd.
Anyway, thank you 🙂


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