Canonical’s CEO and founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, recently announced on his blog that Canonical will be “hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality.”
Hope fully this will result in a better and more consistent user experience in Linux. Mr. Shuttleworth also offered some other advice to free software projects:
- Make your site visually appealing,
- Do something different and do it very, very well,
- Call users to action and give them an immediate, rewarding experience.
Computerworld [via Slashdot]