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2011-09-17
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2011-09-17
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2011-09-17
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2011-09-17
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I watched the whole microsoft build event and nowhere it was mentioned that metro can be disabled butlets say it can. Do you think metro and legacy desktop are getting the same attention from MS??? Where do you think the money is going?? What changed since windos 7 on the desktop GUI??? I agree on ribbon BTW.
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2011-09-17
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I'm excited about this just because MS still has the best handwriting recognition engine out there and they still have the best notebook-analogue in OneNote.
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2011-09-17
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True. there was no hint that it could be disabled. But a simple registry edit (just turn a value from 1 to 0). I could bet they didnīt mention it because they want metro to be tested. Isnīt it the point of this release?
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2011-09-17
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True. there was no hint that it could be disabled. But a simple registry edit (just turn a value from 1 to 0). I could bet they didnīt mention it because they want metro to be tested. Isnīt it the point of this release?
Legacy, OTOH, could still be improved, but if people is "happy" the way it is on Win 7 (I still see people crying over the ribbon in explorer), the best thing they could to improve it, is make it consume less resources, make it faster, which for the looks of it, they are doing.
What do you think should be changed on the current UI?
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2011-09-17
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Just wanted to get some thoughts about this. I'm increasingly concerned that MS is actually beginning to get it, that they are putting a workable long-term plan together. Simply put, in the article linked below the point is made that the new Win 8 'Metro' UI will unify the look and development process for desktop Win, tablets and WinPhone. Developers will be able write once and an app will be available in a new MS market for desktops, tablets or phones. Android and Apple are making similar moves to blur the lines between desktop and mobile use.
Think about that for a bit. It means MS will be able to use their near-total domination of hundreds of millions of dekstops as leverage to gain mobile marketshare and influence developers. It strikes me as the smartest thing MS has done since trashing Win9x, maybe ever.
Thing is, how should Linux counter? Is it long past time to think in terms of Gnome vs KDE vs LDXE vs Fluxbox etc? To simplify the end-user experience and start work on a unified UI that will allow Linux developers to write once for all 3 major hardware formats and users to access some sort of unified app repository?
http://m.infoworld.com/d/application...t_s_big_gamble
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2011-09-17
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It's actually pretty good, and rarely if ever crashes.
Explorer in Windows 7 was actually a huge leap forward even if nothing changed much except for the taskbar.
When I tried Metro on Windows 8, it was just terrible. Oh I hope that **** isn't turned on by default, and it checks whether a touch display is attached before turning Immersive Shell on.
Sharp window corners are nice though.
N9 PR 1.3 Open Mode + kernel-plus for Harmattan
@kenweknot, working on Glacier for Nemo.