Re: GNOME and ANDROID

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 07:20 +0200, Daniele Guerrieri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday, for the first time of life, i saw two Android devices:
> samsung galaxy-s and asus eee pad transformer.
> 
> Immediately, i noticed many similarities between Android's interface
> and Gnome 3.
> 
> Actually, the new Gnome3 interface resembles very closely an android
> smartphone/tablet.
> 
> So, the answer to all criticisms made to the new Gnome, could not be:
> "Ok, we'll let the user choose if he wants or a not a tablet-like
> interface or if he wants a fully functional Gnome2-like interface?

Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does Android -
2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNOME 3? The major feature of GNOME 3 is the
Overview; Android does not have anything like this. It has an app
browser, but this has no concept of switching between windows; Android
isn't a window-based interface. It has no windows at all, which is
another obvious difference. It doesn't have a user menu. It doesn't even
really have 'system applets' like GNOME 3's network and Bluetooth menus;
it uses a rather different system for managing network connections.
Their notification systems are very different. I'm struggling in fact to
think of any way in which the two are particularly similar besides the
fact that it's possible to bring up a grid of application icons in both,
in some fashion. That's a pretty small similarity.
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