On 13/02/13 at 12:39pm, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Purely out of morbid curiosity, I've just spent an hour playing with the
> Gnome 3 LiveCd in a VM.
>
> What I'm seeing is a KDE4 ripoff, done badly, plus a few MacOS-isms and
> some ideas from Unity:
>
> - Highly generic launcher on the left, just like Unity.
> - Click something, get big list of launchable apps in big "area" in
> middle of screen, just like Unity.
> - Go to settings, hey this looks *exactly* like KDE4 SystemSettings with
> the useful stuff removed. Even the icon is the same!
> - Contacts and IM settings integrated into the system just like KDE (but
> actually that might be more Telepathy than KDE)
I think gnome had this before though, empathy predating kde telepathy by
quite some time. Although I have no clue on how things were < kde4.
The IM chat integreated into the shell thing was the only thing that
caught my attention in gnome3 the one time I tried it.
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