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by aroman 13y ago
That is not our dock, and that is not Luna. We didn't make that video. Apparently it was made by a fan who had built his own version of Luna using some of our software. I can assure you that genie animation is nowhere in any code eleme
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by aroman 13y ago
We aren't using the magic mouse icon. It's a hand-drawn svg, although I agree it looks pretty similar. Here's the icon at a larger size: http://i.imgur.com/Hnc53Yd.png
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by aroman 13y ago
Your attention to detail and consistency (or lack thereof) is most appreciated :) The naming inconsistencies are there for historical reasons believe it or not, but they will definitely be resolved by the next release. I agree with you abou
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by aroman 13y ago
I appreciate the input. All I can really say is that you have to remember elementary is not a business. We don't have investors. We don't aim for market share or target X number of users by X date. Fundamentally, we build what we
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by aroman 13y ago
GitHub doesn't come close to providing what we currently get from Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/elementary . To name a few things, translation support, integration with the ubuntu bug tracker, PPA management, blueprin
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by aroman 13y ago
elementary OS is based on Ubuntu. The apps mostly are written in-house specifically for elementary OS, and are developed on Launchpad and published as Debian/Ubuntu packages available through the official Ubuntu repositories and elemen
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by aroman 13y ago
Vala is, all in all, fantastic. The way I describe it to people is "it feels like C# but runs at C speed", and that's pretty much accurate. The only issues we have are binding bugs and Vala bugs, both of which are harder and
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by aroman 13y ago
All of the apps you mentioned are third-party. We do not directly develop the mail or browser programs. I'm not sure what you meant about Contractor, because we definitely do have API guidelines for it. Also, there is an excellent thir
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by aroman 13y ago
As a matter of fact, I wrote that very program, Switchboard. It's getting late and I don't want to write a whole book about it's design (though I could), but basically here's the story: I saw some mockups Daniel Fore (t
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by aroman 13y ago
We too would love to build hardware to market along those lines, though, of course, such initiatives require talent we don't have access to right now and costs we can't afford. One day though... :) By the way, I'd definitely
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by aroman 13y ago
I appreciate your honesty. You should know that we didn't "pick" our GTK+ theme. In fact, it predates the OS itself and is the result of (seriously) 100+ man hours of refinement and tweaking, including working with GTK+ theme
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by aroman 13y ago
In fact we are very very interested in investigating tiling WM capabilities for the next release of our window manager, Gala. As someone who suffers from the lack of good touchpad drivers for my primary computer, a Macbook Air, I am very ex
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by aroman 13y ago
Rebasing to Debian definitely comes up a lot. Our main reasons for sticking with Ubuntu are: - we rely very heavily on Launchpad - we rely on the hardware support and testing work they do - the Ubuntu userbase seems to be a bit more in-line
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by aroman 13y ago
I would imagine they would help with the porting effort, but I really have no idea. I can't speak to Canonical's intentions or Ubuntu's plans, I'm afraid.
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by aroman 13y ago
I appreciate the suggestion. We (as the elementary team) did not actually create the video -- rather, a (very talented) fan created it of his own accord and sent it to us. I agree that we would be well served by highlighting the features of
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by aroman 13y ago
We've got them coming! Some of the guys who work on the build process and the ISOs have cranked out some ARM builds of Luna. I don't think they're perfect quite yet, but I fully expect them to be available for download from t
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by aroman 13y ago
I honestly don't know! I don't know of anyone who has tried Luna on an rMBP. I would encourage you to burn a copy of luna to a USB disk and boot into the live environment. You can play around with it and see how it looks, with no
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by aroman 13y ago
We absolutely do not use the genie to minimize apps (nor is such functionality even available in the program we use for our dock, Plank), and in fact we came up with our full screen button months before Apple made that design change publi
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by aroman 13y ago
100% agree. I personally only noticed this tonight shortly before the launch (at which point it was too late to change), but I definitely dislike the fact that we (in fact, the video was created by a fan) used a video which showed off a wal
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by aroman 13y ago
Great question. The simple answer is: we don't know yet. We actually had a conference call with some folks from Canonical a few weeks ago discussing this very issue. At present, it seems like there are three options (I'm taking th
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by aroman 13y ago
Thanks very much for sharing this. Trying not to take it personally is something we all really try to work on. I think you're spot on, particularly about [1]. A lot of the flak we get seems to stem from the fact that we're very ve
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by aroman 13y ago
Flexibility is definitely something we try to be opinionated about. We don't offer a lot of easy GUI customization out of the box, but you'll find that there's quite a bit hidden beneath the surface or is easy to code up your
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by aroman 13y ago
Hi, thanks for the interest! Our desktop interface and apps are actually quite different from Ubuntu, though we are an Ubuntu-based distribution. To give some concrete examples: - We use our own desktop environment and window manager, Panth
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by aroman 13y ago
I believe oakaz was referring to the ability to actually play movie and audio files which use non-free formats, such as MP3. This is a frequent/historical pain point for laypersons using Linux desktops. The answer is yes. In the inst
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by aroman 13y ago
Do you really think this is a legitimate concern? I'm asking this as someone who is intimately (well, less so in recent months) involved in elementary's strategic planning -- I am on the core team. Can you suggest specific aspects
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by aroman 13y ago
Thanks for the advice, and I definitely see where you're coming from. I tend to be an advocate of the "take good ideas but make them seem different" approach, but I think a core philosophy in elementary (perhaps to its detrim
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by aroman 13y ago
In fact, the video (and Luna) uses neither GNOME nor compiz. We use our own window manager called "Gala"[1] (it is based on the same library that gnome's is) in our own desktop environment called "Pantheon"[2]. [1]
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by aroman 13y ago
Yes, absolutely we are doing different things. Examples include our launcher (from the top left hand corner), slingshot[1], our deprecation of the desktop as a place for folders, and our human interface guidelines. As another concrete examp
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by aroman 13y ago
As an elementary developer, the feedback is appreciated :) Can you suggest an alternative to the bounce?
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by aroman 13y ago
I have been a developer for elementary for 3 years, and I am part of the elementary core team. I am also personally close friends with much of the design and development team, including the project's founder and lead designer, Daniel F

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