Canonical Ubuntu splits from GNOME over design issues

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, October 28, 2010 01:46 PM, Doug wrote:

> Ubuntu has put up the most different GUI of the more common Linux distros
> already, now they want to make it even more unusual.  I fail to see how
> this is
> going to provide "the best experience for their users."  If they want to
> provide
> the best experience, they need to provide something that looks like MS
> Windows.

When even Microsoft themselves don't quite follow that rule? There was 
plenty of jabs at Office 2007 but in the end people actually like its 
new interface.


> If they could do that, and return to some of the flexibility that the
> earlier versions
> Win had--I'm thinking of Win 98 without the BSoD--they might really have
> something
> that would give the users the best experience.  Just to come up with
> something that
> looked a little more familiar, I had to do more tweaking to Ubuntu than
> any other
> Linux distro I have tried, with the exceptions of those that have gone
> full out with
> KDE 4. Think Kubuntu! Ugh! (KDE 4 can be tamed to look like a regular GUI--
> PCLinuxOs 2010 has done it.)

So the Kubuntu devs messed up because they were trying to keep things 
too much like Windows?


>
> I really don't understand how a company that wants to commercialize
> their distro
> can come up with such weirdness.  I should think that they'd want any
> secretary
> in the business world to be able to sit down at their system and use it,
> not have
> to take a class in how to.
>

Funny how Mac OS X is making its way into homes nowadays even though 
their desktop is so different but makes sysadmins curse when they have 
to maintain Mac OS X desktops (okay - maybe it is not the desktop's 
fault there) and so should Ubuntu try something that has definitely 
fallen flat on its face (Kubuntu - only diehards like me use it and 
that's only because I don't like GNOME) or take a fresh look at things 
like Apple (Steve Jobs) did?