I upgraded my primary machine to Lucid the other day.
So far I've been pretty impressed.
I'd heard a lot of stuff about the 'me' menu and the messaging integration, without really knowing what it is all about.
Under karmic, my experience with empathy had been more than a little disappointing.
With Lucid, things are much better. The envelope in the top panel which goes green when a new message comes in is working really well for me.
The Super-m keyboard accelerator takes me to the messaging indicator and allows me to switch easisy if I want to talk to a contact.
I took a look at the code, the Super-m key binding is hard-wired into the indicator code, so I've had to re-train my fingers which, since I've had that bound to minimize windows.
Super-s takes you to the logout menu, again no way to configure this though.
On balance, I'm a big fan of keyboard support for everything.
This is probably one reason I don't really care about the buttons moving to the left. I don't use the things as a rule (I use the keyboard). One thing I do like on the buttons is the close window one is red -- easy to spot and hit if I need to.
In other news, so far sound has behaved itself. Hopefully the days of 'killall pulseaudio' are numbered.
