Unity interface

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:38 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 07:31 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>>>
>>> I just installed an 11.04 daily in a VM.
>>>
>>> The Unity interface is a copy of the Mac, in menu layout. The rest
>>> looks like 10.04/10.10.
>>
>> I HATE COPYCATS/IMITATIONWARE.
>>
>> Give me Mac OS X!!!
>>
>> Or something better.
>
> :¬)
>
> To hell with that. I /like/ OS X and I find the interface a /lot/
> nicer than GNOME (and I quite like GNOME.) If Ubuntu make GNOME a
> whole lot more Mac-like, that's fine by me.
>
> I find it a little odd that all of the big Unix GUIs - KDE, GNOME,
> LXDE, XFCE - all seem to mainly copy Windows. The ones that don't -
> that copy other systems (ROX, WindowMaker, GNUstep) or do their own
> weird thing (Enlightenment) do not seem to prosper. How come more
> don't, ahem, "take inspiration" from Apple design?
>

Just wait a few more years for OS X to get more entrenched in the home.

Oh, you're comparing desktop environments (the lousy Windows copying 
losers) to light-weight, window managers/shells.

I don't know what is up with that though.