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:
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> 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
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