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Transform Ubuntu 12.04 Into Mac OS X Lion
- udp 14y agoA theme for Ubuntu that makes it look a little bit like OS X. Why is this on the HN front page? Why?
- bertzzie 14y agoIs it usually that easy to do in Ubuntu (or Linux) in general? I think customization using CSS is really great. Maybe we could discuss that?
- Sottilde 14y agoI love it when the creators of complex systems use common and well-understood formats for configuration. The use of CSS for styling your window manager is genius and really speaks to their dedication to the project.
- bertzzie 14y agoIt's sad that they target users, not developers though. Imagine how awesome the ecosystem would be if many developers use it.
- teffen 14y agoI really wish people would stop with knee-jerk reactions. >> Why is this on the front page? I cannot possibly understand. The situation is truly beyond my comprehension. The article demonstrates the malleability of Ubuntu's CSS theming system.
- kapowaz 14y ago> The article demonstrates the malleability of Ubuntu's CSS theming system. That doesn't make this newsworthy.
- teffen 14y ago>> SO SAY I, OFFICIAL INTERNET CURATOR KAPOWAZ Honestly, click the down vote button if don't think the article is newsworthy. Even so, the community votes to decide what shows up on the front page; not you specifically.
- kapowaz 14y agoMy comment wasn't made in my official capacity :) I'm mostly just remarking with bemusement that such a thing would garner attention. But I guess it takes all sorts.
- TimGebhardt 14y agoI had no idea that this was a new feature of the newer Ubuntu releases and I was pretty excited to stumble across this. It's pretty darn cool.
- bertzzie 14y agoIt's interesting to see Linux' customization power. It's not only look like a real OS X, it's also really easy to do. Can someone comment about the user experience? There should be many little things that's different between OS X and Ubuntu's experience right? I have not use OS X or Ubuntu much to comment, but if that's easy to change too, it will be a really interesting thing to see.
- gavinh 14y ago...why?
- bertzzie 14y agojust to show off the power of customization in Ubuntu (or Linux in general)? The GNOME-shell can be customized to behave like GNOME-2 to an extent. It might be interesting to see how far can we go...
- bpierre 14y agoInteresting and ugly.
- bertzzie 14y agothe customization is ugly?
- bpierre 14y agoThe possibilities of GTK theming are very interesting, but the result is ugly, it doesn’t fit. See: http://f.cl.ly/items/3S033x090a370x1u0S3h/osx-ubuntu.png http://f.cl.ly/items/3S033x090a370x1u0S3h/osx-ubuntu.png http://f.cl.ly/items/0Y1H0X0l45272l2j401t/osx-ubuntu-2.png http://f.cl.ly/items/0Y1H0X0l45272l2j401t/osx-ubuntu-2.png http://f.cl.ly/items/1a3o1x2a0g0v161v062j/osx-ubuntu-3.png http://f.cl.ly/items/1a3o1x2a0g0v161v062j/osx-ubuntu-3.png
- lazydon 14y agothanks but no thanks
- ranza 14y agoI dont always use linux, but when i do i want it to look like something from the matrix
- jamesu 14y agoIt might look a little bit like OS X Lion, but it's missing over 200 features which make Lion... Lion, not to mention it doesn't even run OSX apps!
- xqyz 14y agoIt looks pretty much the same as these Mac Transformation Kits they had for Windows a few years back. Anybody who ever used a Mac can clearly see that this ain't it. IMHO it pretty clearly fails in delivering what it promised, but if you like this half-mac, half-unity style, I guess you might like this.
- edtechdev 14y agoDoes it have the spinning rainbow of death?
- Tyr42 14y agoIf it just had awesome trackpad support...