Unity interface

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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:54, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Technically, Gnome is supposed to be flexible so you can pretty much
> make it look like whatever you want it to look like.  Which is why
> stock Gnome looks like the Windows UI but the Ubuntu implementation is
> more Mac OS X-like with the menus at the top left of the screen.  In
> fact, some distros remove the bottom panel with the application task
> bar and put Gnome Do in its place.

Yeah, but for that matter you can do the same thing with Windows...
and there are even Docky like apps for Windows, IIRC...

But in general, with the exception of OSX and now Unity, the most
common GUIs have used the same format Windows has used.  A task bar at
the bottom of the screen with some sort of "Start Menu" or "Main Menu"
in the corner with widgets on the opposite corner that indicate
date/time, and status of certain things.

And that bar is usually movable, there may or may not be a second
one... the menu structures are even usually fairly similar.  Granted,
the last few KDEs completely changed how the menu structure is laid
out, but historically, both KDE and Gnome used basically the same
style and positioning by default that MS has.

Oh well.. heh... now back to seeing how my Lucid -> Maverick -> Natty
upgrade went on my test system :)