No, thanks

If you played to Carmageddon you would not be in doubt, I think

If you played the sequels, you would be in doubt.

I use Unity with 2 monitors and it is pretty good; but I didn't try Gnome

I run with Unity in one window and Windows xp in vmware in another 24" without problems. Gnome works too.

All you need to ensure is you have decent video card/drivers

I'm using it from the beta1, and I must say that it is awesome; apart from those notifications zero-interaction zero-configuration, I hate them!!!

The notifications in the newer Ubuntu really do irritate me. In releases of old (if my memory is correct), notifications could be clicked to bring up the program that was notifying you. Now they just go semi-transparent and can't be clicked, so I have to open the program manually. Not a huge deal, but it could have a better UX by being interactive (I'd love to be able to reply to a chat message within the notification window, ala Digsby).

> Now they just go semi-transparent and can't be clicked

I'm running 10.10 and it's the same as you describe. Which I think is the right way to do it, for anything that pops up unexpectedly.

Thunderbird (and others) doe notifications the way you describe, but I don't think ubuntu (or any other distribution, or even osx for that matter) ever let you click directly on the system-wide notifications.

In ubuntu they used to work like that until 10.04. In other distributions it's still common IIRC.

Ubuntu swapped out the common notification daemon for one called notify-osd.

as WebSockets too

Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood the sentence :-/