Finally, the next step on the road to make all crictical user applications open. OpenOffice 2.0 final is ready!
We have Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Jabber, now we must give user a GUI that will be able to compete with Windows. I hope that we’ll get there at the end of the 2006. With XOrg 7.2, KDE 4.0, Kernel 2.16.x and next generation of SuSe or Ubuntu.
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I am not so sure, that lack of good GUI is the thing that prevent users from migration to Linux. It’s lack of some applications and configuration nightmare (for normal user) in some areas (for example – sound configuration).
And to OpenOffice – it has two main flaws:
1. It starts to slow – even slower than MS Office under Crossover Office.
2. It is not fully compatible with MS Office (let us hope it won’t matter in the future and open formats will become popular).
Am I right, that you had posted entry about Flock and it dissapeared? Sorry to put comment in wrong entry, but besides that, I can’t find Flock entry. It still sits in my RSS feeder. 🙁
Riddle: It’s there, don’t you see it?
As far know, Ubuntu is Gnome based…
Yes, I did not mentioned Gnome only because I don’t see any common way this browser is heading. There was some project for Gnome 3.0, but community didn’t like it. So for the moment it seems to me that they’re looking for slow evolution of current status, which (as we know) did not make them a big threat for Windows market 😉
As for the gui, judging from most mockups, they point in the direction of a sleek black/grey and white theme that i think is pretty cool and proffesional. I even used it for a firefox mockup(http://netobjective.openswarm.com/app_guis.html)