The battle of the UI is upon us. Run, the sky is about to fork (see is Ubuntu forking Gnome ) Nobody but nobody is worried about those users who just want a functioning desktop. Sure Unity aka Ubuntu Shell will bring with it innovation, and as Johno Bacon says, "Gnome Shell is just a click away". Well, what if I don't want either option?What about those of us who just want to keep the desktop the way it is, Classic Gnome, with incremental development on areas related to performance, speed, elegance in code, better drag 'n drop libraries, productivity, stuff that really matters instead of moving the stearing wheel from left to right in the sad attempt at changing user behaviour in the process?
Shout out for sanity now, because the mirage presented by Gnome Shell and now Unity aka Ubuntu Shell, is killing me. It is exactly the kind of thing which divides communities and creates opportunities for Google (see Linux Journal) This is not like the KDE vs Gnome war, this is about the basics, the instant recognition of look and feel which every user expects from a GUI in order to make it number 1..
My guess is Ubuntu has been heading tragically close to a bunch of OSX and Microsoft patents and this is way of putting a spin on an otherwise depressing situation. Rather than actually talking out the strategy that is needed to overcome some basic facts of life in a digital age, the community and canonical has found a rather efficient way of devolving around the problem Hell,.adopting Unity is like going backwards a couple of centuries. Do we really need Hardy Heron as the next LTS?
Fight M$ and OSX by saving GNOME and Ubuntu from itself. Ubuntu is really merely a brand of Gnome Linux and Linux, as we all know, is just one of the GNU kernels.
Adopting Gnome Shell wouldn't be any better than using Unity. In addition, Gnome Shell itself uses shitload of iOS ideas and immediately would be banned ;)
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