In this age it is common practice, indeed required, to invest resources (financial and otherwise) to "be beautiful", and the software is not exempt from this trend. To save us from the effects of such deviation, fortunately, is the indisputable fact that beauty is subjective.
Bullfighting: Windows Seven vs. Mac OS X Lion vs Gnome vs KDE 4.6 3
Now we sink our fangs in a classic, but not common, comparisonWindows Seven vs. Mac OS X Lion vs KDE Gnome 4.6 vs 3
as if they were exposed to four different cars in a dealership and for which we were asked to giudicarle esclusivamente guardando le foto dei depliant.
KDE 4.6
Una modernità tradotta in trasparenze, ombre e luci effetto neon ricorda un futuro vecchio. Chi di noi, guardando un vecchio film ambientato nel futuro, non si è trattenuto dal pensare: “come avevano immaginato vecchio il futuro”. Ebbene, gli screenshot di KDE 4.6 mi ricordano l'opera di quei registi che exceeded with the evocation of elements which, for them, were representative of the future.
Windows Seven
Mac OS X Lion
Gnome 3
You were not made to live like brutes
However, the brute in me went out hunting the bad in them. A brief overview on some details of the future (nothing new) drawn in the newest Desktop Environment:The Window Buttons
KDE 4.6 believes that the user is a skilled archer, with this conviction thought, with a view of the essential wrong and cleaning, to minimize the much used buttons (Minimize, Maximize and Close) in three small testes of mice.
Mac OS X Lion viaggia su tutt'altra sponda: le palle devono stare a sinistra. Pur sempre rimangono piccole palle di topo. La sua (e dei suoi predecessori) brillante idea di accessibilità è stata quella di rimuovere i simboli e colorarle come un semaforo da balera degli anni '80, ma ahimè tale concetto di accessibilità si scontra con le realtà tipo il daltonismo e i device monocromatici.
Windows Seven identifica bene i pulsanti, dando maggiore risalto a quello più strategico (il Chiudi). Purtroppo, il look di quei pulsanti risulta una lucidatura di un oggetto vecchio. L'effetto glass, l'illusione del rilievo e il doppio contorno iniziano a soffrire dell'olezzo di a stale modernity also their appearance in the overall image of the window is over-emphasized, so as to invite the user to forcefully close the newly opened window!
Gnome weighs 3 better ease of use (large clickable area) with a sober, elegant and uniform at the window. To win a higher rating, but I expect that when the cursor is positioned over buttons these are marked with the strong colors and meanings, such as red for close, and so on ... but the screenshot that you can not know. (UPDATE: Today's freeze of the GUI confirms, differences in the image shown here, the absence of the Maximize and Minimize buttons. I'll be conservative, but the concept of minimalism is becoming too extreme for my taste, and here's a hack that would give peace to the traditionalists like me typing this command from shell buttons should reappear:
gconftool-2 - set "/ apps / metacity / general / button_layout" - type string ": minimize, maximize, close" ) The system tray system tray
For the differences between the ED are being solved, it would seem that various programs share the same tendency to a more discreet graphics, an essential and less invasive. The trend already seems to be marked, judge for yourself:Mac OS X Lion continues to take the monochrome icons minimal style and well defined.
Gnome 3 follows the minimalist style of Mac OS X, but choose a set of colors in flat negative.
Windows Seven follows the same trend of its competitors.
KDE 4.6 has also adopted the style, but brings with monochrome icons sé un imprinting diverso, per via della dimensione delle icone, della loro proporzione nella barra e per quell'accennato stile Glass, tuttavia proprio ciò mi lascia un tenue retrogusto amarognolo e pesante.
Le finestre
KDE 4.6 ha creato un'enorme superficie grigio cremazione, dove disperdere con poca armonia parole con un font anoressico, minuscoli elementi e icone True Life. Il pallino a sinistra è ridondante in un'ottica (auspicata) di minimalismo e pulizia dell'interfaccia; inoltre anteporre ad esso l'iconcina del programma è a dir poco raggelante.
Non posso non aggiungere che l'inconsapevole eccessiva tendenza alle trasparenze portano a incongruenze funzionali, ad esempio guardando la foto, l'utente non riesce a capire chiaramente quale finestra abbia il focus.
Mac OS X Lion , anche qui il grigio domina ma senza appesantire grazie alle tenui sfumature. L'eleganza e la raffinatezza degli elementi è impeccabile.
Sinceramente, per quanto riguarda il desktop ( vedi questa foto ), speravo in un definitivo abbandono della dock 3D a favore di qualcosa meno keech.
Windows Seven è l'unico che azzarda the use of a chromatic color in addition to gray scale (with strong experience nausea Blue Sea XP). The impact overall color is the sun, but the details are "teenagers". The Back and Forward buttons, with bas-relief effect on the glass with knurled hologram that assembles the window, are an interpretation of prehistoric memory interfaces "plastics".
Gnome 3 dresses with elegance and simplicity, unfortunately, still does not buy that level of sophistication that could raise a just reward for the choices made. The icons would need to absorb higher quality and instill more professionalism while remaining a simple concept of simplicity also, maybe (I should try it), I think Gnome 3 is making excessive use of land for the title and the menu at the expense of the increasingly wide devices.
Desktop Environment Considerations
The perfect and beautiful for all, so there is unique. The canons of beauty are subjective, the capacity of the Program is restricted to those "human" and Kattivissimi users like me will always have an opportunity to criticize.More
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Gnome KDE 4.6 3
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