[Klug-general] Ubuntu Branding

[George Prowse]

On 08/03/2010 17:17, James Blake wrote:
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> On 7 Mar 2010, at 13:54, J D Freeman wrote:
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> Talking of Jihads:
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>> ...so any UI "benifits" that OSX would supposedly give would leave me wanting to kill something...
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> Speaking as someone who worked on the original Mac OS X UI when I was at Apple, our team had over 15 qualified post-graduate cognitive psychologists (me included).  On top of that we had a whole raft of industrial designers, artists, musicians and even architects.  The remit we were given by Steve Jobs was to design a user interface so attractive "that people would want to lick the buttons".   Linux historically has been heavily linked to, and developed by, engineers and that is often visible in its UI.
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> Linux users are often the exception to the rest of society in that we like to tinker.  There is no denying that Mac OS, from a design point of view, is one of the most attractive and intuitive **out of the box** UIs on the planet.  I've seen some lovely linux desktops, but the effort to get there was high.  Linux is a kit car and the Mac is a toaster.
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> What you get with Mac OS is vanilla, but it is oooooohh so tasty vanilla made by Marco Pierre White.  I also must say that the Mac OS Cocoa windows library and Objective C make knocking together apps an absolute joy, as does the XCode IDE they ship with ever Mac (although I use Netbeans and Eclipse on my Mac as well).
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> I often find myself configuring my Linux boxes (well the ones with UIs) in a fashion that work similar to Mac OS, not because I am stuck in my ways, but rather that the amount of thought and planning that went into the Mac OS UI means it is the most efficient and intuitive.
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> Just my twopence.
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> James
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My best mate is a mac specialist and he says that Mac OS was far better 
designed than OSX will ever be. Although it could be for sentimentality..