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I think it's only partially about the desktop and more about the experience. I'm fairly certain they're looking for help, you know, if you'd like to make it loo
by apgwoz 18y ago
I think it's only partially about the desktop and more about the experience. I'm fairly certain they're looking for help, you know, if you'd like to make it look like something in 2009, or maybe something for the future!
- moe 18y agoI don't believe in building the umpteenth desktop environment unless you can add something new to the pool. There are OSX style themes for all major window managers and many of them look way better than what I see in those screenshots. I could turn your question around: Why did they start their own instead of just supporting, say, XFCE?
- ori_b 18y agoThey're building on top of GNUstep.
- apgwoz 18y ago> Why did they start their own instead of just supporting, say, XFCE? Because XFCE doesn't have the same goals as they do. If you listen to the interview with them on FLOSS Weekly at twit.tv, they talk about how they want this thing to grow, and what they want it to be. The best example I guess I could give is that they are creating a desktop environment based on concepts in Smalltalk. The look isn't the important thing (at least right now). The cohesiveness of it all is what's interesting.
- bonaldi 18y agoBecause getting rid of X would be a win?
- krakensden 18y agoIt doesn't get rid of X, it sits on top of it just like XFCE, KDE, Gnome, etc. It's easy to say that getting rid of X would be a win, but replacing it at this point would be much more work than fixing what's wrong with it.