Re: GNOME and ANDROID

["Allan E. Registos" <allan_registos lavabit com>]

On 7/13/2011 10:49 PM, Daniele Guerrieri wrote:
> > 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.
> Android has not windows? I'm sure it has windows; it has a slightly different
> idea of windows: you cannot resize them, you have nowhere to drag them, you
> cannot maximize-minimize. It is "oriented" (don't know if it's the correct
> word) to small devices, such as smartphone and tablets.
> It's like the Iphone interface: you don't have a "start" menu, you don't have
> a "menu" with accessories,applications,settings; you have instead many screens
> that you could slide left-right in which you can see lots of icons; each icon
> belongs to a different application, so at the end you'll have a mess (newspaper
> apps mixed with medical apps, calculator hide between settigns and
> internet browser,
> etc.). It's like the iphone, from which all new gui derive (IMHO):);
> and bo th iphone
> and samsung galaxy are phones.
I myself really do not like the iPhone and Android of doing things (grid 
of icons all over the desktop). I only have two icons(My Computer & 
Network) on the Windows desktop and nothing else except that I add some 
important app icon.
I like the webOS interface though, but that just my taste.