[starwed]

> "[We are] flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting gradients."

That sounds nice. I think the Mac OS is a little bit too shiny as well. And I never liked the fat+rounded style Ubuntu has. I don't use Windows, but if the theming is any good, hopefully other systems will take cues from it.

>"There is no evidence that people want to use [mice]" (John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984).

I didn't realise this guy had been making terrible predictions for so long!

[bluthru]

>I think the Mac OS is a little bit too shiny as well

What's shiny about OS X anymore? The only thing I can think of is a glass panel in iTunes and the stoplight window controls. It's a very subdued, minimal, content-focused GUI.

[redthrowaway]

"Shiny" could be metaphorical, here. Ever since Lion, OSX has been far too eager to show the world that it exists. Too many gimmicky interfaces, too many half-baked UI structures.... I don't care. Let me do what I want and get the fuck out of my way.

I have a limited number of pixels available to me. If you're a GUI designer who thinks I should give those pixels to you, then you are mistaken. Apple seems to have forgotten that recently (although Snow Leopard is pretty great).

[underwater]

The dock has that reflective surface.

[jrockway]

I don't want to use a mouse. It takes up space and destroys my tendons. It's just that focus-follows-brain doesn't work very well yet.

[InclinedPlane]

Use a trackball if you have problems with mice destroying your tendons.