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GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone?

someWebGeek writes "According to the GNOME design crew, as reported by Allan over at As Far as I Know, GNOME 3 will represent a new approach to GNOME application design. The design patterns being developed and employed may effect a new, prettier interface, but more importantly a new mindset about the entire project, a mindset intended to encourage greater deep beauty in the application layers below the user interface. Maybe...for now, I'm sticking to the sinking ship of KDE in the Ubuntu ocean."

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  1. Re:BLECK! by CAIMLAS · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    May I introduce you to the tiling window manager? Take a gander at awesome, the first and last window manager a competent person should ever need.

    Forget "virtual desktops". Forget "windows". They're silly concepts not suited for anyone but a designer.

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