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["Stefanos A." <stapostol@xxxxxxxxx>]

Every desktop environment has its own set HIG. Unity is sufficiently
different than Gnome Shell or KDE4 that it merits some form of guidelines,
even if they are as simple as "must work with the global menu, must offer a
tailored launcher menu and must follow global font settings". Most of these
will be inherited from Gnome Shell and the rest will be additions for
Unity-specific functionality (i.e. they will be supplementary rather than
divisive).

Above all, canonical applications (as in Canonical *and* canonical) must
follow these guidelines to the letter. Ubuntu One and the Software Center
currently stick out like sore thumbs from the rest of the desktop. Not good
at all.