Spoiler: GNOME wins

Btw their GNOME Theme manager is here

  • onlinepersona
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    7 months ago

    How can people claim Gnome isn’t trying to copy the Mac UI? If he didn’t say mac at all during the video, I’d think this is some Chinese desktop environment being compared with Gnome.

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    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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      7 months ago

      I asked that once and it is pretty different.

      1. GNOME didnt look like that all the time. I dont know when but they went from bottom panel to top panel to left side panel to this layout.
      2. The top bar is used differently. Workspace indicator, but no global menu (which makes no sense) or app menu. Extensions can make it pretty much the same
      3. The dock is hidden and forces the workflow with workspaces. I dont think thats a crazy feature and dash to dock makes it equal again
      4. The window buttons are different
      5. The top bars are thicker etc.

      Some settings are different, the tiling works better but yeah it is too similar.

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      7 months ago

      Because it’s very different? The bar defaulting to the top is the main similarity.

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        7 months ago

        It’s been a while since I’ve used Gnome, but back when I did I also felt it lacked a lot of configurability much like the Mac.

        In comparison, KDE felt a lot more like Windows (or how Windows used to be in the past) where you could configure and tweak all sorts of things.

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        7 months ago

        The entire video reveals how similar they are. Gnome is just Mac’s UI and tools with a linuxy feel. Gnome devs even have the same ideology as Malus “We know best”.

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