That is certainly interesting, and I totally missed it on the reg. FWIW, I don't doubt Mr Shuttleworth believes wholeheartedly in the direction he's taking Ubuntu, and no question he has the right to do so.... but.....
On 04/07/12 10:19, Alan Pope wrote: <SNIP> > Mark Shuttleworth: > Windows 8 is really interesting. Microsoft have realised they need to > address all form factors. The Metro work is world class, but the > tablet/desktop integration in Win 8 is sucky, in part because they were > not willing or able to move the desktop as hard as we were in the shift > to Unity. If we had tried to marry Gnome2 and a tablet, you would get > Win8 :). So Unity on the desktop was in large part designed to make the > tablet / desktop convergence slick. It's been copied by others, but I > don't think they understand exactly what they were copying ;) This is where I can't follow his lead. To my way of thinking phone, tablet, POS, PVR, desktop and probably others are totally separate use cases which demand *very* different things from the user interfaces. I feel that those disparate uses should have, at most a subtle, "arm's length" influence over each other. Chris -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------