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Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical
Matt Zimmerman, CTO at Canonical, has announced that he will be
leaving the company next month. "It has been my privilege to have played a part in creating Ubuntu and Canonical. It has been a pleasure to work with so many talented, dedicated and fun people over the years. I am immensely proud of what we have accomplished together: bringing free software to people, places and organizations which have derived so much benefit from it."
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Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical Posted May 8, 2011 15:37 UTC (Sun) by tseaver (subscriber, #1544) [Link]
Thanks for the work you have put into Ubuntu, Matt, and best wishes for your future.
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical Posted May 10, 2011 8:44 UTC (Tue) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
Thank you!
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical Posted May 9, 2011 8:42 UTC (Mon) by petur (guest, #73362) [Link]
So are a lot of users who object to Unity being forced down their throat...
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical Posted May 9, 2011 18:45 UTC (Mon) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]
There should be a version of desktop for people who think the number of the click counts should be minimized to do their everyday jobs (programmers?), vs people who want tiny cool cute popups while hovering mouse on desktop gadgets.
I think the trend is to slow down power users; Google instance, Windows 7 task-bar, Genome3, Unity, ...
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical Posted May 9, 2011 20:21 UTC (Mon) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link]
There is, at least in gnome3. It's called fallback mode. Actually I think it should be made the default.
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical Posted May 9, 2011 22:52 UTC (Mon) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]
The Gnome3 fallback mode is analogous to the Windows 7 classic theme which seems like deliberately makes everything ugly to force you go back to a hardware accelerated theme.
I do not know what is wrong with design people, just come up with a few default themes and let users rearrange everything however they like it, there is not perfect fixed scenario. Unfortunately someone at Google decided to imitate Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Windows is imitating Mac OS and it seems some Linux distros blindly imitate Windows! I have come to the combination of Bing and Xfce! And I use 7TT for Windows programming to alleviate some of the pain.
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