Comments on: The Third Age http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/06/18/the-third-age/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:15:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Love http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/06/18/the-third-age/comment-page-1/#comment-38 David Love Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:17:22 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/?p=31#comment-38 " It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind – the year the Great War came upon us all." Sorry - couldn't resist. ” It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind – the year the Great War came upon us all.”

Sorry – couldn’t resist.

]]> By: Oded http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/06/18/the-third-age/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Oded Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:32:45 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/?p=31#comment-36 Don't get me wrong, from what I've seen GNOME shell is going to be awesome but its not so much as a move away from the desktop metaphor as much as its a further refinement of it - maybe as much as Windows 95 with its taskbar was such a refinement of the simpler desktop metaphor presented by Xerox, Apple, Microsoft and others. Also - where is the June 2002 figure coming from ? KDE 1 with a Windows 95-like desktop had appeared on July 1999, and GNOME 1.0 with a very similar look was release a scant 9 months later. Its not like later revisions of GNOME and KDE have made any significant improvements to the way a desktop is organized - even KDE-4 brings nothing new to the table in terms of how one relates to a computer UI. P.S. it would be cool if your blog had email registration so I can get notified there are more comments on this specific blog post - discussion are cool but I can't be expected to sit here and refresh this page. Don’t get me wrong, from what I’ve seen GNOME shell is going to be awesome but its not so much as a move away from the desktop metaphor as much as its a further refinement of it – maybe as much as Windows 95 with its taskbar was such a refinement of the simpler desktop metaphor presented by Xerox, Apple, Microsoft and others.

Also – where is the June 2002 figure coming from ? KDE 1 with a Windows 95-like desktop had appeared on July 1999, and GNOME 1.0 with a very similar look was release a scant 9 months later. Its not like later revisions of GNOME and KDE have made any significant improvements to the way a desktop is organized – even KDE-4 brings nothing new to the table in terms of how one relates to a computer UI.

P.S. it would be cool if your blog had email registration so I can get notified there are more comments on this specific blog post – discussion are cool but I can’t be expected to sit here and refresh this page.

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