>> > 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?
Never implied that and my being in Red Hat is secondary. >> 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!). OK. > 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. I never quite liked KDE, prefer Xfce and Gnome. And Fedora is largely a Gnome-leaning distribution. -- Harish Pillay [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg id: 746809E3 fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3 _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
