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Happy for them. Back in 2004/2005, Ubuntu was what got me into the Linux wonderland. It was an amazing time. Canonical's work on the desktop towards the end was
by owaislone 5y ago
Happy for them. Back in 2004/2005, Ubuntu was what got me into the Linux wonderland. It was an amazing time. Canonical's work on the desktop towards the end was so exciting for me personally. Unity as a concept even though just partially realized is still my favorite ever DE. To this day I install little tools on my mac that give me some Unity elements like super+{1,2..N} combo. Part of me still wishes they or someone else can come back and finish that vision.
The original Unity design docs were so good but I can't find them anymore. Does anyone have access to them? They detailed things like workspaces, "windicators", HUD etc. It was an exciting time even though there were a lot of flamewars because of Gnome fans not being happy with Canonical doing their own thing.
- simion314 5y agoIf I remember right Unity was based on user testing and not on some pretend designer preferences and weird philosophy.
- owaislone 5y agoI don't know if it was based on user-testing but yes it did involve a lot of user-group studies where they'd bring in random people with no prior Linux experience and tell them to use Unity