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Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment
pschmied writes "Today the Étoilé Project released v0.2 of its Desktop Environment. Not only does Étoilé share user interface similarities with Mac OS X, Étoilé enjoys some source-level compatibility with Mac OS X as well. Many here undoubtedly remember NeXT, the revolutionary computer / development environment that gave rise to the first Web browser and later became the foundation of Mac OS X. Étoilé uses the FSF's own implementation of the NeXT development environment, GNUstep, making this a close technological relative of OS X. Screenshots and a source tarball are available."
Why not just make the screen one big button? Can't miss that and it takes less movement of the eye and won't confuse anyone as to what app the button belongs to because it obviously belongs to the only one taking up the whole screen.
The Farewell Tour II
Once again, the "editors" have failed us. The linked news item doesn't mention Mac anywhere. Neither does the project "about" page. And the screenshots don't look particularly like a Mac. (The title bar icons are on the opposite side from MacOS!)
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So, the submitter is out of phase with our collective reality, and the "editor" went ahead and posted it to the front page
-Peter
You outline all the good things about the Mac UI but don't outline the bad things. In fact, I bet you can't even name any bad things and just think it is perfect. Which is total bullocks. You're just repressing them.
One thing I hate is the mentality of "it just works". Which is great, if it does, but when it doesn't, well, you're shit out of luck because we didn't even bother putting any UI components in to help you diagnose what the problem is, because there's not supposed to be any problems!
How we know is more important than what we know.
No, WindowMaker has a Wharf/Dock a la NeXT. Etoile has auseless dock" a la OS X.
One allows for nice cascading graphical menus, the other allows for candy clutter.
Were that I say, pancakes?