Re: FC16 newbe questions

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On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 14:55 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: 
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> > I was under the impression that Gnome's design directive was to follow
> > Windows look and feel, but not be a slave to it.
> 
> That's what they wanted you to believe.
> 
> In fact, any time spent on the gnome devel list revealed that many
> awful "features" were added, and many good ideas avoided, because of
> some nebulously-defined user's "expectations," which was code-speak
> for, "That's how Windows does it." Or less often, "That's how OSX does
> it."
> 
> -Alan

People keep saying that Gnome 3 tries to follow the look and feel of
Windows (I assume Windows 7). I just don't see it. My wife uses Windows
7 and the look and feel is nothing like Gnome 3.

Could someone explain why the look and feel are the same or even
similar?
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