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What Might UserLinux Look Like?

Posted by timothy on from the it-will-be-green dept.

Lucky writes "This story at Linuxworld talks about some of the potential features of UserLinux, as well as Bruce Peren's proposed community desktop project and its potential features. There's some exclusive commentary by Perens there, too."

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  1. Hehe, amusing by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 4, Informative

    I understand most (95%+) don't have constant contact with Mac OS X, much less play with the developer tools...

    But what you just described is how Mac OS X's Interface Builder works! The widgets, guidelines, interface paradigms, and look and feel are encouraged and enforced by the UI; the menubar, window layout, widget placement, texturing, widget types, etc,

    It's not perfect; developers can still intentionally (or unintentionally) violate the HIGuidelines, but it's a lot harder than any other IDE I've ever seen.

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