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Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-not-your-father's-cde dept.

magellan writes "Sun has released screenshots of its upcoming Mad Hatter Linux desktop. Mad Hatter includes GNOME, StarOffice, Evolution, and Mozilla. Sun has made minor modifications to Gnome to make it more familiar to Windows users. Sun's Mad Hatter, along with SuSE's new push on the desktop, could make Linux on the corporate desktop and laptop a bigger reality."

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  1. Re:Windows... by xyvimur · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe just to `convert' people. People are not willing to change their habits easily - so it's kind of bridge between `worlds'.
    On the other hand I'm sick of all attempts to make WM's look'n'feel like windows environment. It's reasonable to a point, but `copying' every tiny detail is too much.

  2. Re:Windows... by Gyorg_Lavode · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem with windows was never it's gui. (Well, not for most users at least.)

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  3. Re:Kinda skimpish, by 0x0d0a · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not so worried about Sun being a nice player. They've contributed some to GNOME development already.

    The idea is to let Sun do the not-so-fun-but-profitable work of pulling people over to GNOME from Windows. Sun goes after Microsoft, and we get to keep making fun software.

    A lot of the folks Sun's after aren't coders. There's lots of good software for coders out there, because OSS people like writing stuff that they can actually use themselves. Sun likes making money, so Sun does their thing.

    I wish Sun had more of a Linux movement, but I suppose Solaris and BSD are really the only things out there that can compete with Linux and more, and Sun wants to keep their sunk investment in place.

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  4. Re:Windows... by Spellbinder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i think that it is a problem if you copy the windows guy for users used to windows
    most user will think "Ohh, this looks like windows, so it has to work like windows!"
    like on a cd player or a vcr all the buttons look same
    and i think may will get angry if it does not
    if the UI clearly differs from the windows the user will realise "Ohhh, this is something else, maybe i should make the tutorial that pops up, or look at some documentation!!"
    i think a move away from windows would be a real chance to change and improve the UI dramatical
    we should not keep things because users are used to them but because they are the easiest way to do the job

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