Unity thoughts.....

I like elements of unity and if going forward it can improve on the elements that I don't like so much then it will be awesome, well for me at any rate. I'm not going to make any kinda real judgement though until the ball starts rolling. So many elements will be changed for desktop unity that I think it is unfair for anyone to make rash judgements based on the unity that was designed purely for the netbooks. I think that people are forgetting that whether Ubuntu went with Gnome-shell or Unity-shell there would be a new learning curve for the latest desktop. Unity I think though will be less steep as users have it on their netbooks already but not only that it feels kind of familiar. It would be nice if the search feature did files, applications and web all in one rather than having to have icons for each type of search. With nautilus becoming the file manager again that gets rid of the issues I had, having to breakout of the unity file manager in order to share stuff through Ubuntu one ( an awesome feature by the way guys). The side bar I think is fantastic, as a quick launch mechanism I find it less fussy than some with some nice features. I think the quick menus will just just add to the usefulness. I for one can't wait. After hearing some of the features planned for Natty I can hand on heart say it's gonna rock....... hard! I hope that all of the developers and community are as fired up about this release as I am. It is sounding like it's going to be one of the most dramatic releases to date.....Bring on alpha1