Google desktop Linux?

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:40 am

dookiesmack wrote:LOL...Gentoogle sounds like somekind of meat spinner sex act...lol.." Dude I got Gentoogled by Pat today" lol.

Ewww, lol. Pat needs to stop Gentoogling Dann's balls.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:44 pm

Supposed screenshots of Googified Ubuntu:

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:48 pm

LOL, looks even more ugly than fvwm!

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:05 pm

Why do many of these new distros. make you feel like you're in a bloody cartoon?!

Is this really the mentality of the so called "office professional" these days?

No wonder I don't attend many after-hours office get-togethers.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:11 pm

Judland wrote:Why do many of these new distros. make you feel like you're in a bloody cartoon?!

Is this really the mentality of the so called "office professional" these days?

No wonder I don't attend many after-hours office get-togethers.

LOL!! Good thing I wasn't drinking anything! Kinda like windows XP right?!
Romper Room colors!

For our non American friends who don't know what the hell I'm talking about:
http://www.tvparty.com/lostromper.html

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:12 pm

I strongly think this is fake, if you look in the taskbar you see a Windows XP networking icon, also one thing I noticed about Google is that they mostly hire brilliant engineers and not useability experts, interface designers and people like that, if KDE or GNOME didn't have useability people involved, where would we ever be today?

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:16 pm

Patrick wrote:
Judland wrote:Why do many of these new distros. make you feel like you're in a bloody cartoon?!

Is this really the mentality of the so called "office professional" these days?

No wonder I don't attend many after-hours office get-togethers.
LOL!! Good thing I wasn't drinking anything! Kinda like windows XP right?!
Romper Room colors!

For our non American friends who don't know what the hell I'm talking about:
http://www.tvparty.com/lostromper.html

Maybe the Fisher Price colors are closer?

brakthepoet · Post by **brakthepoet** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:23 pm

Definitely a mock-up. The pics are originally from an Italian site which blogs about possible future technology.
<a href="http://grooan.com/futurefeeds/index.php?p=15">Primi screenshot per GoogleOS</a>

Google has confirmed they are using a customized version of Ubuntu.
<a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/sho ... n=">Google Confirms Using Ubuntu Linux, Won't Say Why</a>
Why are they using a Linux distro if they aren't planning on releasing it to the public? Probably for all of the same reasons we're using Linux.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:36 pm

Patrick wrote: LOL!! Good thing I wasn't drinking anything! Kinda like windows XP right?!
Romper Room colors!

For our non American friends who don't know what the hell I'm talking about:
http://www.tvparty.com/lostromper.html

I know what you mean, Pat.

I'm looking forward to KDE's Plasma, but crossing my fingers hoping it looks nice, but professional too. I'll be real disappointed if Plasma turns out to be "Romper Room themed".

Take eyeOS, for example. I know Linc (and some on the IRC) didn't like the colour scheme, but the layout is nice and clean. It's stylish, but professional, too... if you know what I'm getting at.