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"I'm also patiently waiting for Linux to catch up to OSX in usability/UI." That gave me a chuckle. The first thing that the Linux world should do is decide on
by msie 18y ago
"I'm also patiently waiting for Linux to catch up to OSX in usability/UI."
That gave me a chuckle. The first thing that the Linux world should do is decide on one UI to use but that will never happen. It is philosophically impossible.
- ii 18y agoAs it was "impossible" for Apple to decide when all they had was the old Macintosh toolbox and NextStep UIs, but they did it. They made Carbon/Cocoa to look reasonably consistent despite huge internal differences. Linux can do the same with Qt/GTK+/etc. It certainly possible to have high-level UI consistency between multiple toolkits, especially when they all share the same lower-level stuff (X11/Cairo).
- iron_ball 18y ago"Philosophically." With Apple, they had mechanisms of corporate governance to simply declare a standardization plan and follow it, and require developers to follow suit. Linux, not so much.