On 31 Dec 2012 15:09:46 GMT
Huge wrote:

On 2012-12-30, Daniel James wrote:
In article 20121225125913.748f09ba@hyperion, Rob Morley wrote:
Actually I've been happily using Unity since Ubuntu 12.04 was
released. It's not brilliant but I don't think it's as terrible as
some people would have you believe.

I sorta agree ... Unity is a brave attempt to do something new with
the desktop in the hope of making it easier (especially for
non-techies) to pick up and use. It's nice to see Canonical trying
to improve on the desktop metaphor rather than blindly copying
Microsoft as just about everyone else seems to have done

Skipping lightly over the fact that Microsoft didn't invent it in the
first place.

I think we probably know that Apple produced the first commercial WIMP
interface, borrowing ideas from Xerox PARC, and Microsoft has never
invented anything much, but he didn't say that they have, just that the
Windows interface has influence (as it's the one with which most people
are familiar).