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screenshots: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-beta-has.html http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-...

• bruceD 16y ago
  Release candidate screenshots: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-release.html http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-...
• cpach 16y ago
  Oh, nice to see a light, pale theme, like in Mac OS. It's much easier on the eyes, at least for me.
  • ithkuil 16y ago
    it was already there in the 10.04, albeit not default
    • cpach 16y ago
      Hm. Seems like they tweaked it tough? The theme in the screenshot looks much lighter than the Radiance theme in my 10.04 install.
  • nailer 16y ago
    Anybody else think this is the first ever professional looking Linux distro they've ever seen? Congrats to the Ubuntu team.
    • dkarl 16y ago
      You must be a graphic designer :-) I thought, "What does attractive have to do with professional?" and then realized you meant designed by professionals, not designed for professionals. Professionals' tools tend to look beautiful to them and ugly to everyone else. Maybe this is a step toward changing that, at least for Linux. (Except I'll still have emacs taking up at least half my screen space, with its functional but butt-ugly syntax colorization....)
      • nailer 16y ago
        Nope, I'm a programmer. I just don't like brightly colored notification icons all over my GNOME taskbar. They're distracting - looks (and discoverability, and other UI aspects) directly affect usability, I'm surprised you say you don't get that. As a counterpoint to your argument, I'd say OS X has more professional UI designers than Windows or the Linux OSs and is generally regarded as being more usable too.
        • dkarl 16y ago
          I'm surprised you say you don't get that. Thanks for reading my comment so charitably ;-) What I'm saying is that beauty to the professional user and beauty to an innocent bystander are different things. A professional actually cares more about usability and certainly cares about aesthetics as they apply to usability. The way a professional perceives a desktop will be very different from the way a casual user does. But some people are self-conscious about that; they don't want their professional exposure to change the way they perceive things, or at least they don't want anybody else to notice. So they want a plastic consumer case for their Hole Hawg[1]. Not that OS X doesn't have a lot going for it on the desktop, but a major part of the appeal for developers is that they can have a great desktop they love without non-geeks thinking they must be a little weird to love it. [1] http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
          • randallsquared 16y ago
            but a major part of the appeal for developers is that they can have a great desktop they love without non-geeks thinking they must be a little weird to love it. Most developers (and sysadmins) I know positively delight in their reputation of being a little weird. I know that given two options I like as well otherwise, I'll usually pick the less common one. I still use OS X, though, having switched from Gentoo in 2003, and having tried Ubuntu and Arch for 6-7 months within the last year.
          • nailer 16y ago
            Sorry if you think I was being uncharitable. I suggest that stating that someone else must not be a programmer on a programming site may not be the best way to conduct a polite conversation.
    • dhimes 16y ago
      I was impressed by Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/
• thvdburgt 16y ago
  The asymmetrical upper case T annoys me.