On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Harish Pillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So until then, I would give up my principles and whore myself to Apple. > > Thank you. > > At least you have a choice - so, enjoy it.. Lol. They won't let you use Apple stuff at RedHat? A few months back, I saw two MSFT Singapore guys proudly using Macs. > Help the Linux community in > better UI design etc, if you could. Perhaps you should look at how > the Fedora community has been addressing a lot of the UI arena. > I would gladly do this if I knew how. Unfortunately I'm a web guy (riding the web2.0 bandwagon!). This is funny. After you mentioned the fedora initiative, I googled for "KDE User Interface Guidelines" (Apple has great UI Guideline documents both for OS X 10.5 and iPhone which Mac devs actually follow quite religiously) and I landed here: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/antimac.html Looks like KDE guys intentionally want KDE to be the way it is. Now if the KDE guys believe in something like this I don't see how someone from Fedora can quickly come and set the standards/guidelines for UI and build a truly awesome product. There are too many upstream dependencies. As far as I've seen, most such UI initiatives from one of the distros end up being just an attempt at generating a "pretty skin" for a new release (a bit of artwork thrown in here and there). Frankly I don't blame them. There's not much they can do about the hundreds of apps that others have written. This is based on my past experience. If the fedora guys are doing something different this time, please do share. > Regards. > -- > Harish Pillay [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg id: 746809E3 > fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3 > -- Harish Mallipeddi http://circos.com : http://poundbang.in
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