Timeline for Closing against "Unity doesn't load. No launcher, no Dash appears"
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| Mar 25, 2018 at 16:16 | comment | added | Elder Geek | Oddly, when I edited it the post was listed as a community edit without attribution. Now when I check the edit trail it shows that it was edited by Oli. Most strange. Regardless compiz is still available for all supported versions of Ubuntu, and I think my edit makes that clearer. If a question doesn't make it clear whether they are running Unity or not we should likely be begging for that information, or closing as a duplicate and voting to reopen on those rare occasions that the answers available don't cover the problem. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 16:06 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | :) thanks. No you're right, I was asking what should be done about the post to improve the usefulness of the site, but my personal opinion is that this should include not voting to close against this question whenever a desktop element disappears. I don't have the technical knowledge or experience to tell whether Oli's edit to to the post speculating that "modern" versions of Ubuntu don't have this problem was correct, or what is causing problems like this to happen now, but examining recently closed "dupes" of this question suggests they should not have been closed... | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 20:19 | comment | added | Elder Geek | @Zanna I didn't take you that way, and I certainly didn't intend to come off that way either. I hope your day improves immeasurably! It's entirely feasible that I misunderstood your post. I assumed that you were asking what we could do about the post in question to improve the user experience. I don't know what can be done about anyone mistakenly steering someone the wrong way by erroneously closing as a dupe other than attempting to tease out the details and Voting to reopen upon sufficient edit. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 19:13 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude or negative. Maybe I didn't understand your post. Not having a good day | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 19:10 | comment | added | Elder Geek | @Zanna Maybe it's just me, "but looking for stronger evidence" seems to be synonymous with "begging for stronger evidence" It's difficult if not impossible to always know whether closing as a duplicate and leaving a signpost for future users is preferable to closing as unclear. As a volunteer here, I do my best to be accurate, however if i answer the question asked rather than the question intended you have my apologies. I do my best work when I get paid. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I agree with this approach in general, but I feel that what we're dealing with in this question is people habitually voting to close against this question when none of its answers actually address the problems people are having, when we aren't even sure they are using Unity. I guess my overarching point is that we can no longer stretch the scope of this question to cover every circumstance where some stuff on the desktop wasn't drawn properly and we need to look for stronger evidence before voting to close. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 13:28 | history | edited | Elder Geek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added detail for clarity.
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| Mar 24, 2018 at 13:15 | history | answered | Elder Geek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |