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My experience with the designs used by Linux desktop environments is limited, but haven't the dock and some of it's (folder-)icons shown in the article[0] borro
by Zirro 14y ago
My experience with the designs used by Linux desktop environments is limited, but haven't the dock and some of it's (folder-)icons shown in the article[0] borrowed a little too much from OS X?
I would much rather see them go about improving the GUI in their own way rather than trying to imitate another OS.
[0]: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iQDB5aZg__U/UVHDwY33wAI/AAAAAAAAHbc/kk8H2Z7ZhzE/s1600/Workspace+1_008.png http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iQDB5aZg__U/UVHDwY33wAI/AAAAAAAAHb...
- bluedino 14y agoCairo is a project to make a OS X-like dock. It's not enabled in any of the main distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu...), but you can add it if you'd like.
- Zirro 14y agoI see. If that's the case, it seems they are doing a good job ;-)
- gcb0 14y agoNot at all! Cairo is a vector graphic renderer for X (and others, but i think only for X now) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)
- bluedino 14y agoI'm sorry, the full name is 'Cairo-Dock' (http://www.glx-dock.org/ http://www.glx-dock.org/)
- claudius 14y agoIf people like that particular feature of the other OS, why not imitate it? There were also themes for Metacity (Gnome 2.x window manager) looking like Windows XP floating around – if people like that sort of thing… You still get plenty of diversity and ‘improving’ even though some elements are borrowed sometimes.