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[David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everybody copies everybody. This is how science evolves. That is why I hate
proprietary software. If you make such a selection for fun and we keep it
internal, it's cool, but if we post it on the Journal or something, it will
make us look like an evil company such as Pear.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS architect @ elementary
>
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