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That's why iOS has a springboard in only one place, same for Android. These are modern interfaces, based on serious design work. Our goal is to compete with tho

That's why iOS has a springboard in only one place, same for Android. These are modern interfaces, based on serious design work. Our goal is to compete with those, so we're not that interested in matching functionality that was in Win95, especially if we think that functionality will get dropped in Windows 8 or 9 or 10. So they want Unity to be a GUI for tablets? How far up your ass does your head have to be, to think that a GUI designed for desktop use, and a GUI designed for tablet use, can be used interchangeably? Someone ask Mark, he'll know. Or someone who worked on Metro since they seem to have the same parts of their brain broken. If Microsoft does break into the tablet space, it will be from work on Windows Phone 7, it will not be from Metro. Apple recognized this when they used their phone GUI for tablets despite having a perfectly good desktop GUI around, and Canonical is all about copying Apple like a fucking funhouse mirror, how did they not pick up on this? If they want to target the tablet space, good for them. I think the ship has probably sailed, but more competition there isn't going to hurt. But don't fuck traditional desktop users, who currently account for 100% of your user base, in the process.

einhverfr 15y ago
Exactly right. I am going to state the obvious here. UI's should be designed around their input methods. If the input on a tablet and a desktop are different (mouse vs fingers) then use a different UI. Plain and simple. Gnome 2.3 was a very, very good UI aimed at desktops. 3.0 is another kinda sorta tablet UI that only kinda sorta works on desktops (I am playing around with Gnome 3.0, XFCE, and a few others). The fundamental problem is that what works well with one in one input environment breaks badly in another. This was Apple's great contribution with the iPhone and the iPad. Attempts to merge environments will get you with something that kinda sorta works everywhere and does not work anywhere well.
- jiggy2011 15y ago
  Totally Agree, there is a reason Microsoft are seperating Metro and the main Windows UI and that apple have seperate types of devices (Mac / iPhone + iPad). If you want Linux for tablets/phones just get android.
- bluedanieru 15y ago
  You can't buy a tablet with Unity or Gnome 3 on it anyway. I suppose they haven't completed user acceptance testing yet.

einhverfr 15y ago

Exactly right. I am going to state the obvious here. UI's should be designed around their input methods. If the input on a tablet and a desktop are different (mouse vs fingers) then use a different UI. Plain and simple. Gnome 2.3 was a very, very good UI aimed at desktops. 3.0 is another kinda sorta tablet UI that only kinda sorta works on desktops (I am playing around with Gnome 3.0, XFCE, and a few others). The fundamental problem is that what works well with one in one input environment breaks badly in another. This was Apple's great contribution with the iPhone and the iPad. Attempts to merge environments will get you with something that kinda sorta works everywhere and does not work anywhere well.

jiggy2011 15y ago
Totally Agree, there is a reason Microsoft are seperating Metro and the main Windows UI and that apple have seperate types of devices (Mac / iPhone + iPad). If you want Linux for tablets/phones just get android.
bluedanieru 15y ago
You can't buy a tablet with Unity or Gnome 3 on it anyway. I suppose they haven't completed user acceptance testing yet.