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How many Linux distributions focus so much of their efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design? I would mark that as elementary's primary innovation.

jknightco 13y ago
But they focus none of there efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design. Because none of the effort done was for design. Its literally a carbon copy of OS X. The layout, the colors, the gradients, the multitasking, the dock, the app bounce on the dock, the music app, the exposé style window layout, the mission control tile multiple desktop layout. Any Linux distro with its own UI spent more time on elegant, usable, and consistent design than Elementary did.
- manamana 13y ago
  It breaks my heart when I see a comment like this because I know how much hard work goes into the design, but I can't blame people for not seeing it. It's sad. I wish they would differentiate even if it's just for the sake of differentiation.
  - tuananh 13y ago
    please enlighten me. Because from the demo, I really could not see where the real innovation in design is.
- oscilloscope 13y ago
  The exposé looks like it's laid out slightly differently than OS X and includes buttons to close the window. The multiple desktops is on the bottom and not part of exposé. It includes a new desktop button. It has a dark background rather than blending in with the desktop. It appears you can drag app icons from one desktop to another-- I've never seen that feature before. The header is black/dark grey, not silver. The colors, gradients and layout of their music player and iTunes look significantly different when compared side by side. The file manager is greyscale: it doesn't appear to use blue tones like Finder, except for folder icons. Windows in OS X have 4 buttons, all different colors. Windows in Elementary have 2 buttons, styled the same. This may seem like a pedantic critique of your comment, but my point is that it's clearly not a "carbon copy" of OS X. The statement "none of the effort was done for design" is not a fair criticism of the Elementary development team.
  - quadrangle 13y ago
    fwiw, KDE has features like dragging icons from one desktop to another.
- quadrangle 13y ago
  This comment is just nonsense. What elementary did was obviously use all existing designs as reference and then carefully thought through every detail to determine what they thought was best. They happened to agree a lot with Apple. It is definitely NOT a clone. It is definitely similar. You have no clue about the process in building these things.

jknightco 13y ago

But they focus none of there efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design. Because none of the effort done was for design. Its literally a carbon copy of OS X. The layout, the colors, the gradients, the multitasking, the dock, the app bounce on the dock, the music app, the exposé style window layout, the mission control tile multiple desktop layout. Any Linux distro with its own UI spent more time on elegant, usable, and consistent design than Elementary did.

manamana 13y ago
It breaks my heart when I see a comment like this because I know how much hard work goes into the design, but I can't blame people for not seeing it. It's sad. I wish they would differentiate even if it's just for the sake of differentiation.
- tuananh 13y ago
  please enlighten me. Because from the demo, I really could not see where the real innovation in design is.
oscilloscope 13y ago
The exposé looks like it's laid out slightly differently than OS X and includes buttons to close the window. The multiple desktops is on the bottom and not part of exposé. It includes a new desktop button. It has a dark background rather than blending in with the desktop. It appears you can drag app icons from one desktop to another-- I've never seen that feature before. The header is black/dark grey, not silver. The colors, gradients and layout of their music player and iTunes look significantly different when compared side by side. The file manager is greyscale: it doesn't appear to use blue tones like Finder, except for folder icons. Windows in OS X have 4 buttons, all different colors. Windows in Elementary have 2 buttons, styled the same. This may seem like a pedantic critique of your comment, but my point is that it's clearly not a "carbon copy" of OS X. The statement "none of the effort was done for design" is not a fair criticism of the Elementary development team.
- quadrangle 13y ago
  fwiw, KDE has features like dragging icons from one desktop to another.
quadrangle 13y ago
This comment is just nonsense. What elementary did was obviously use all existing designs as reference and then carefully thought through every detail to determine what they thought was best. They happened to agree a lot with Apple. It is definitely NOT a clone. It is definitely similar. You have no clue about the process in building these things.