I haven’t really thought too much about your point, but the pros and cons of trying to convert users by copying their default theme is a whole other topic. I just don’t think the direct rip of a UI is necessarily the way to bring converts… I’m knocking the concept that copying a user interface will bring users in.
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You still can’t play DirectX 10 games, you still can’t run Final Cut Pro or Logic or even a native version of Photoshop. You’re putting a thin coating on top of Linux which isn’t Mac OSX, it’s not Vista. If I were to give you any of the interfaces you listed but didn’t give you the open source system it was built on, instead locked it into proprietary protocols, running proprietary software, would you convert to it? Or would you say “That’s just a coating on top of a system that doesn’t do what I want it to”? The interface is only the beginning to why people run Macs or Windows based PCs or even Linux based ones. I’m knocking the concept that copying a user interface will bring users in.
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I’m not knocking the research, the work that goes in to the open source software that people use everyday.
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Applications that are user friendly, well designed and relatively bug free will bring users, not a copy leopard’s or vista’s UI. It’s the interfaces like you described, when implemented well and are easy to use that will. I just don’t think the direct rip of a UI is necessarily the way to bring converts. I’m not an Apple fanboy, I use macs, I run linux and when I have to, I run windows. I want to see more interesting things than the common “let’s copy windows or leopard” UIs. Please don’t get me wrong, I never meant to say that there was nothing interesting. These examples are just the more unusual ones that I can recall, and, no doubt, some of them could be duplicated in XFCE. Here are screenshots of FLWM and PYWM, two fltk WMs that place the window titlebar on the left side of the window:Īlso, I don’t know if there are any speedy, tiling WMs that run natively in Windows or OS X, but *nix has lots of them. The title bar is on the bottom of the window, here: The window border in this theme is delineated only by the red corner lines and the cross-hatch background: Here, the window elements slide along each other as the window expands/contracts:Ī cow (I think this theme was ported from the Oroborus WM): In this one, the active window faces upward, while the inactive windows face downward: The Golem window manager has a few unique themes: A floating “hex” menu controls the windows, instead of window buttons: (Most of the following screenshots are several years old.)Īnother uncommon window manager is UWM/UDE. Here is Kuartet, the KDE version of Mezzo: Here is a proposed color scheme for the latest version of the Mezzo: Unlike a certain popular desktop that is often mistakenly promoted as “utilizing Fitts’ Law,” Mezzo truly locates important GUI targets in the screen corners and screen edges. One of the more unusual *nix window managers is the Mezzo desktop of Symphony OS, which runs on FVWM. However, disregarding personal taste in color schemes and other aesthetics, it is fairly easy to point to a few window managers and themes that are essentially “different.”
Of the 100 or so *nix window managers and of their zillions of themes, it would be difficult to predict what would be interesting for another individual. What strikes one as “interesting” is very subjective. I just wish we could see some really interesting results as opposed to Vista or Leopard rehashes.
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