Jason,
Have you used windows phone 7? Have you used Android? Do you know the reason behind the design decisions Microsoft made? If you have a windows pc, please download zune for pc and iTunes. Compare the two. they both do the exact same thing and yet zune to some (like me) is the better UI and UX (user experience). The same minimalist ideology was used in windows 8. Then they went one step further and made each tile a small xaml app. Xaml gives the developer more power to control the look and UX than winforms ever did. Thus irregular the tile size is to accommodate summarised data whose details can be found by selecting the tile. This is all fine and dandy. Now, what use is that to image processing (photoshop), word-processing (word), spread sheets (excel) and other productivity oriented applications? What android did was introduce the option of having widgets. This is (should be) the way forward for Linux. The use of widgets and icons might be the future of Linux UI cause xaml certainly isn't. by the way, have you used windows 8? Has anyone told you how ANNOYING metro UI is to use with a mouse? Most people who have none-touch-enabled devices disable that feature and it ends up looking like windows 7. Jake From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Tumusiime Sent: 18 November 2011 16:14 To: Uganda Linux User Group Subject: Re: [LUG] Where Linux sucks That's something jake. Imagine you were given windows 8 UI on top of Linux, what do you think? . I'm sure someone is about to tell me Linux is not the UI, but you get my point. I am a sucker for beauty. Without a company like apple to POLICE the development of applications and the appropriateness of apps, the metro UI falls FLAT on its face and reveals itself to be nothing but a bunch of tiles in one colour. The assumption that a user will need TONNES of information at a glance leading to designation of otherwise useless desktop real-estate to this cause is something that I am sure Linux will catch up with. I think you have a point but how about the assumption the user need to access tonnes of information easily? -- Jase
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