Fork Unity? At least you need to mention the going on projects like ProjectManager, how do you plan to integrate EtoileUI et al? Stop slamming cake into people's faces coz you think it tastes good. Especially when they already have theirs in ovens. Wait.. you don't even know what is going on around here do you? Helllooo anyone in there? *Snap* *Snap* Please get out of your head!
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Maxthon Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a serious Ubuntu and OS X user. By Ubuntu 11.10, Unity is introduced. > To me, I saw serious similarity between Unity and Aqua of OS X. So my > suggestion here is (although a little but absurd) fork Unity and tweak it > into a open-source Aqua clone. > > Current UI shipped with GNUstep still used the old design of NeXT, which > seemed a little bit outdated to me. Given the "artistic render" of what you > hope Étoilé look like at 0.5, I think maybe Unity could be a good start > point. > > Some existing features of Unity can be leveraged and modified into clones > of OS X features on both looks (as they already are) as well as > functionality. > > Unity already have a unified menu bar we can leverage as well as a Dock > clone. Those can be used directly. Its Dashboard can be modified into a > clone of OS X Launchpad, if we can make it recognize application bundles > installed in default places. The main apparent missing piece is a clone of > Finder (or a new version of GWorkspace that looks like Finder). > > So how is your opinion on forking Unity and modify it into a > better-looking GUI for Étiolé? > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > > -- I used to be a GNUstep developer like them, then I took an arrow in the knee...
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