On Feb 11, 2012, at 2:16 AM, Tom Metro wrote: > > I'm not doubting this is the case, but can you give a few examples? > Are the differences largely superficial?
I thought I did. Put Debian GNOME, Red Hat GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME side by side and see for yourself. > Sure, it would be nice if the top 2 or 3 desktop Linux distributions had > consistent UIs, but really is this something that has a practical impact > on usability, if the largest percentage of new users being exposed to > Linux are only having to deal with one distribution, and with a > substantial probability that it will be Ubuntu? This is the same argument that Google uses to rationalize the fragmentation of Android UIs across many vendors' products. I see it as nothing more than a slippery slope, because the changes are made for branding rather than usability, and that's just wrong for user interfaces. FWIW, I can counter that myself: HTC applies Sense to all of its products so that all of its products have the same UI regardless of the OS underneath. This is a good UI model to follow, at least for those who stick to HTC products. It's a big, complicated mess. Maybe either GNOME 3 or Unity is the solution. I don't know. I don't see it but that's just my opinion. --Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
