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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eh, I have a feeling it could come off as a very arrogant/whiny way of trying to look better than other people. Like a very hipster attitude of "I was doing foo before it was cool". 

Another thing to consider is it worth the time and effort? Does it help our users more than working on the dev or user guides or posting stories to the Journal?

Now, if you wanted to write a series for the Journal about common software design motifs and the roles of imitation (purposeful and accidental) that could make for some interesting reading. 

But I would be very careful and avoid making it sound like other people are copying us. 

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

El ago 22, 2012, a las 12:50 p.m., "Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Hey guys,
> 
> With Chrome OS adopting Slingshot design in the stable channel now (http://chrome.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/a-new-apps-list-on-chrome-os.html), Slingshot is definitely going to be considered "Chome OS ripoff!!!11" by many. I think we should set up a page somewhere in elementaryos.org to track (some of the) design decisions of controversial origing we use and show the actual history those design decisions had. That Chrome OS thing also uses the same idea as my True App Center rant from three months earlier (http://shnatsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/true-app-center.html) and GNOME Shell has also picked it up for GNOME 3.6 (http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/08/21/rounding-out-the-3-6-feature-list/).
> 
> Contractor is a good example of predating the competition by a significant amount of time. GNOME is also steadily picking up our design decisions, though it's not much of a big deal.
> 
> Oh, and we should mention prior art about which we weren't aware... for example, Maemo has a great AppMenu in GTK that predated our implementation (by the way, it's designed simply gorgeously; I think we should rip more of it!). Maemo also has a 3x5 menu grid which we found to be optimal... etc. 
> 
> And we create a way for readers to submit info on prior art as well as further evolution of these design decisions. I think this will contribute greatly to our image of open design as well as code.
> 
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> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS architect @ elementary
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