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To be fair, the GitHub for Windows UI looks a lot like the Zune UI, which has been around for a while now. I've not been able to try it yet on my Windows machin
by ineedtosleep 14y ago
To be fair, the GitHub for Windows UI looks a lot like the Zune UI, which has been around for a while now. I've not been able to try it yet on my Windows machines, but the screens I've seen look like they borrowed heavily from what Zune had.
- generalk 14y agoGitHub for Mac borrows from a lot of good Mac UIs, and it looks like GitHub for Windows does the same from good Windows UIs. Frankly I find this refreshing. I'm tired of applications that build their own interaction layer and then implement that across every platform regardless of that platform's idioms. Or, even worse: Air apps.
- elitrium 14y agoI don't think this is always such a good thing. http://artificialized.com/2012/05/github-for-windows/ http://artificialized.com/2012/05/github-for-windows/
- jamesgeck0 14y agoIt's designed to look like Metro, the style Microsoft is adopting for Windows 8. Zune was an early iteration of Metro.
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