Sigh. Don't they look mac-like?

Posted Mar 9, 2010 1:53 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: Sigh. Don't they look mac-like? by jebba
Parent article: Try the Linux desktop of the future (TuxRadar)

It's mono-based. That's not derivative at all :-)

You aren't going to catch me running that, either.

Timely?

Posted Mar 9, 2010 2:00 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

I like the way this story ran soon after the "Apple sues UI imitators" and "Mono sponsor to be broken up by corporate raiders" stories from last week.

Sigh. Don't they look mac-like?

Posted Mar 9, 2010 10:12 UTC (Tue) by sylware (guest, #35259) [Link]

Mono? ERK!

I won't run that bloat, my browser is already too much.

Sigh. Don't they look mac-like?

Posted Mar 9, 2010 18:09 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Gnome Shell is Clutter+Javascript, and Clutter is written in C. *whew*. You had me worried. If Gnome Shell were written in Mono, I'd have switched to KDE today.

Yes, Gnome Do is mono-based. In fact, it's a perfect Mono poster child: bloated, overhyped, and underwhelming. A little buggy too. I tried it for a few weeks, filed some bugs, then uninstalled it with relief.