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- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I see a lot of nice translucency effects, but it's something that GNOME, KDE and other DEs already can achieve at present (X composite). The underlying layer need to be modified though.
For artistic merits, this is worth watching.- twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8If nothing else, it's more eyecandy for linux.
- JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We need GTK+ to support xcomposite.
- searayman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I have been using the avant dock, and have to say it is amazing! and cant wait to see the rest of this guys work!
- dimonK, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I agree. I work with the same tool!
- rotarychainsaw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Go Man, GO!
- imanihilist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I hope to see something like those mock-ups in Ubuntu as a standard deal in the next few years. Would be awesome.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -32/+3I know I'll get dugg down for saying this but...
Why doesn't he just buy a Mac?- psylence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Because, believe it or not, some people enjoy _doing_ instead of _watching_.
- SleepJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3I'm willing to bet money that someone will come at you with a mother sex joke, or some other type of lame sex joke.
- rbanffy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@psylence,
Rephrasing 1973's question, why imitate the Mac? Why not make something completely different? Something that would be difficult or impossible to do on a Mac or on a Windows box?
Unixes (and I am excluding OSX because it's not that easy to dismantle part of it) are perfect for that kind of thing. - tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@dgh1973
I think the key word there is *buy*. - enodev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why would you need something completely different when it just works?
The way I see the recent developments, is that we take all the good ideas and open them up and most of all free them for the public. You don't have to learn the apple way of doing things, you don't have to learn the microsoft way. You tell your OS to do everything the way you want.
Configuration tools for compiz are just awesome. The way you can change the desktop the way you want is impossible on any other OS I know.
Many of the current ideas may come from apple or ms or google and I am really grateful for them but all of the these firms lock their ideas away. Now people have the chance to play with these ideas and evolve them. And when time is due something new will evolve out of them. That's the way it always was. - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"why imitate the Mac?"
Well, OS X is incredibly shiney, and has had a lot of work put into it (research, graphic design, coding and such) - Why reinvent the wheel? A lot of people like the OS X GUI, and personally I find it decent to use (As do a lot of people). More Open Source projects *should* "borrow" more ideas from both each-other, and popular proprietary applications.
- Ben - captaineuphoria, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Mac OS X didn't invent the dock, moron.
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3You can do all you want with Gnome, without a decent media center I'll never use Linux.
- maino82, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13try mythtv. it'll let you do tv, video, music, pictures, weather, surf the net, etc. if that's not your definition of a "decent" media center i wouldn't hold your breath for something better.
- littleguru1, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2Greetings Vista! Looks very much copied.
- pufuwozu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I don't see many similarities at all.
- rbanffy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@littleguru1,
Let's start with the differences:
- First, by running atop a decent Unix-like kernel, this one should be stable and secure. Vista is not
- Second, by being modular, it should enable user customization on levels no other software stack allows
- And I could do on and on, but the MS astroturf team will digg me down - smitting, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That's kinda funny. I don't know that I saw anything new in Vista to copy that wasn't copied from somewhere else.
- arjie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Even then:
'Copying' is a natural part of the evolution of computer software, dude, just as it is in cars, homes, appliances, just about everything. If there's a good idea, people will implement it. - sanguinemoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Did you look at the pics? If anything, it's knock-off of OSX..ooops
- hotdamn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14This is the nicest Linux I've ever seen, and imho miles ahead of vista. It looks so tastefully done.
- Ramsees79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Looks great, Tht'a why I love GNOME
- kiwiboyus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's a very sweet looking desktop, I think I need to spend sometime on mine this morning.
- shadowman99, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1dugg.
- blackhorus, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0Isn't linux for geeks...?
- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Would you like some coffee, sir?
If Linux is for geeks, then there must be alot of geeks.
- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Would you like some coffee, sir?
- motang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow that one slicking looking mockup. Can't wait to try it out.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1"Rephrasing 1973's question, why imitate the Mac? Why not make something completely different? Something that would be difficult or impossible to do on a Mac or on a Windows box?"
Thank you rbanffy... that's exactly my point. Linux has a real opportunity to move in unique and innovative directions and things like this just ruin that potential. People are already focusing on Vista as an OS X clone attempt... don't let Linux desktop design suffer the same fate. - Porchman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm always amazed by how sexy some people can get their Linux desktop. Mine looks like garbage and it's all because I don't know where to look. I've followed alot of tutorials and installed things like Beryl and cursor themes and things but it still looks horrid. Where do people go for the good themes and styles?
- Sp1k3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4gnomelook.org
- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5gnome-look.org or kde-look.org or wherever you look. This one is not a theme, it's a new interface for Gnome.
- cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you get themes from gnome-look.org, and are using Ubuntu, you may have to install the package gtk2-engines-pixbuf to make them work.
- ptFoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You can't buy style or class.
- wisam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is that "Cinema" media player a mockup too? I hope it isn't.
Any links?- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's likely YAMP based on Gstreamer. Not that I'm dissing that (because Linux media players for the most part aren't that great), but it's really not all that special, though it is a much better interface than most.
I just wish most GNOME developers thought like this instead of the boring, stick to the rules, beige interfaces that currently exist (Rhythmbox, I'm looking straight at you).
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's likely YAMP based on Gstreamer. Not that I'm dissing that (because Linux media players for the most part aren't that great), but it's really not all that special, though it is a much better interface than most.
- inotocracy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Tasteful use of transparency effects, very nice. Gnome isn't ugly for once :P
- cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1digg down
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"You can't buy style or class."
Sure you can, you can buy all the style and class you want.
Taking interface design concepts from another OS and mimicking them has neither style nor class though.
Not only that, but of all aspects of OS X to imitate, the dock is probably one of the worst. No Fitts law corners, it makes button locations unpredictable... the dock was just a horrible idea on many levels.
Sure it had style when Apple did it, but it's all style and no substance and here it just looks like a lame knock off. I'd probably be happier with a more functional bottom panel keeping that hot corner access to my trash can and show desktop buttons.
It's pretty but it's also pretty lame. This is obviously the work of a mac switcher and NOT a usability snob (which is what most of the GNOME community is, just ask Linus), because just about every mac user and usability snob out their thinks the dock is a stinky turd.
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