Opinions aside one thing is clear: elementary is not slacking. Like so many non-elementary applications, Chrome and Firefox are left looking like eyesores under the default theme. Time would be better spent on ensuring that the sort of browsers most users end up using integrate into the desktop shell. The decision to pursue Midori as the default browser is one I can understand, but find a trite self-defeating. Following GNOME’s lead, elementary developers are also pressing ahead with the ‘header bar’ approach, which combines both title bar and toolbars in a stylish and space efficient way. The visual finesse extends to the ‘Switchboard’ settings app, which gains new transitions and toggle switches. The smart matching is able to detect when you need a solid bar, when a transparent one would work best or when the text should be a lighter colour so that it’s legible.
#Elementary os isis code
Some ingenious code allows the top panel to adapt based on the colour of the background wallpaper. While it demonstrates the current ‘as is’ code of Gala, the Mutter-based window manager, the Pantheon desktop and associated apps and features, it offers an advance glimpse at the promise on the horizon. Elementary OS Ain’t SlackingĪ video posted at the weekend shows off some of the work that’s going into Isis, the successor to last year’s Luna release. It’s something Ubuntu, oft-touted as the pinnacle of Linux usability, has never quite managed to pull off. That’s not an insult tying together disparate third-party projects into a unified and cohesive whole is hard to do. Whether you feel their visual style owes a nod to the designers behind OS X or not, the engineering and development vision driving the project certainly follows in the vein of Apple. Jupiter, the first stable release of the OS, was released back in 2011, with Luna, based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, following in 2013. Since then the team has been beavering away on the next iteration of its desktop shell ‘Pantheon’ and the underlying technologies powering it. While not immune to the changing tide of computing habits (all OSes will have to face up to a reset in expectations from tablet devices) it’s not (yet, at least) trying to force pointer-led interaction through a finger-shaped hole. With Ubuntu placing all of its eggs in a ‘convergence’ shaped basket in a long-term play aiming to bridge multi-device form factors with a consistent codebase and user experience (insert breath here) it’s left to smaller Linux distributions to push forward the more traditional desktop paradigm that most users are comfortable with.Įlementary OS is one of several distributions to be built on the Canonical-backed core of Ubuntu but spin off in a totally different direction.
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