Apple OS X, BSD and Jordan Hubbard

We've had a number of posts noting that Boston.com's digitalMASS has a very decent article on Apple's OS X, BSD and Jordan Hubbard.

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Re:Apple is arrogant, at least Hubbard is

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Well, the Gnome screenshot there looks to me (as a long-time multi-platform user who has always preferred the Mac GUI) like a Windows screen. (Although I haven't used it, so I don't know how the behaviours work.) Why?

• Windows-style control box in the upper right hand corner of the window; I'll bet there's no button for Make It As Big As It Needs To Be (the MacOS "maximize"), but rather a button for Fill The Whole Screen (the Windows maximize)
• Broken scrollbars: the MacOS implementation puts the arrows next to each other. This is massively easier on the mouse-hand; it's why Mac users generally don't care about mousewheels (unless they play FPS games).
• Lack of an OS-based menu alongside the application menus (i.e., an equivalent to the Apple menu - Windows' Start menu appears on the taskbar, which is pretty far from the app menus and therefore involves more mousing).

This is a general problem I've seen with X interfaces; they tend to be inspired by, well, Win95.