Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu: open-source desktop requires facelift

MarkShuttleworth, chief executive of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu program, said in his Blog on Wednesday that the company is preparing to recruit specialized user experience and Interaction designers and experts to lead the Canonical engraved usability improvement, it also sponsors other open-source desktop programs, including Gnome and KDE. 「 We will hire a group to transform X, OpenGL, GTK, Qt, Gnome and KDE so that we can implement some desktop experience ideas .」

Mark Shuttleworth, chief executive of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu program, said in his Blog on Wednesday that the company is preparing to recruit designers and experts specialized in user experience and interaction to lead the Canonical engraved usability improvement, it also sponsors other open-source desktop programs, including Gnome and KDE.

「 We will hire a group to transform X, OpenGL, GTK, Qt, Gnome and KDE so that we can implement some desktop experience ideas .」 He wrote.

Shuttleworth recently said availability is the top priority for open-source software. Linux Desktop "should have a user experience that can compete with Apple within two years .」 He said this at the o'reilly open source Conference (Oscon) last week.

Some Open Source Code advocates have also responded to Shuttleworth's statement, but they also think that the enterprise wants something different from that of Ubuntu, which is a relatively consumer.

"He is right. Linux does need to improve availability .」 Mark Taylor, founder of Open Source Consortium, said. 「 That's not that difficult to find .」 It refers to the progress of Gnome and KDE on user interfaces.

However, Taylor also pointed out that consumers will pay more attention to user experience than enterprises do; IT managers will use Linux on servers. Even if any desktop deployment is usually used to lock the system, users can only use specific applications and maintain a consistent policy. 「 Even if they use Linux desktops, they do not think user experience is the top priority .」 Taylor.

Shuttleworth said that open-source software allows developers to freely develop, so there are often inconsistent user experience between applications or operating systems.

For example, Ubuntu uses the Gnome Desktop interface, but one version uses KDE. Both Ubuntu and OpenOffice are included ). Gnome also uses GTK, So If OpenOffice is used in the KDE environment, different enable dialog boxes will appear on the desktop.

Paul Adams, a member of the KDE program, said, "KDE is already working on a cross-desktop guide, so that users will not feel much worse when converting between Gnome and KDE .」

「 Our usability is actually quite good. Maybe we cannot compare it with Mac desktop, but the current situation is quite mature .」