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Introducing the Mockup Project
Pier Luigi Fiorini writes "The Mockup project is a desktop operating system based on GNU/Linux. It has recently released new source code and published both screenshots and mockups. Read the announcement to know where are the source code tarballs and how to compile them. Mockup uses a new lightweight and modern graphical user interface that supports both pixel and vector based graphics. The GUI is based on bleeding edge technologies like Qt 4.0 beta, Elektra, HAL and DBUS. Elektra is a new backend for text configuration files.
Instead of each program to have its own text configuration files, with a variety of formats, Elektra tries to provide a universal, hierarchical, fast and consistent namespace and infrastructure to access configuration parameters through a key-value pair mechanism. This way any software can read/save its configuration/state using a consistent API."
I haven't seen an interface like that since yesterday.
It looks like they're basically building a better GUI engine for Mac OS X.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Mac OS X. Nor is there any new GUI engine here. It's just yet another clone of the BeOS UI, and a bad one at that.
The GUI in OS X is currently a mess. Ask any Mac themer. I hope Apple buys this from these guys and fixes Aqua.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Mac themers? Do those even exist? If so, what do they do, sit around and talk about how they wish Mac OS X supported theming? As if that would make a better UI?
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
He had me at "The Elektra Project tries to upgrade a '1+1=2' system into a '1*1=1' one." That's positively poetic--what does it mean?!