[Klug-general] Ubuntu Branding

[George Prowse]

On 06/03/2010 18:25, James Morris wrote:
> On Sat, March 6, 2010 16:33, Colin McCarthy wrote:
>> On 6 March 2010 15:30, George Prowse<george.prowse at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/03/2010 14:56, Anoj Perera wrote:
>>>> Looks like ubuntu is becoming more like Mac
>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand
>>>>
>>>>
>>> As a Mac owner (and Ubuntu) I can tell you in no uncertain terms that
>>> that is far from Mac
>
> Maybe, Anoj was not speaking literally in terms of visual style of Ubuntu,
> but was in fact speaking in reference to the dogma?
>
It seems to be fashionable these days to have thin fonts and glossy, 
glassy-style colours. This was not a Mac thing, I remember it in the 
first Alphas and betas of Windows "Longhorn" in 2003-2004 and what we 
know as the OSX "niceness" came in with "Tiger" in 2005.

Actually, come to think of it, I remember a "Longhorn Style" in compiz 
in 2005 - after which Apple *really* started ripping off all of Linux's 
desktop goodies