This article is a bit old but I think it would be a great thing to see Ubuntu pull in android support. Google, a business and Canonical, a business might find some mutual benefit in partnering.
The major linux Desktop environments, will probably feel too much has been invested to do a true reboot. Also, egos in the linux-desktop world would likely bluster at the idea that Google can do in a couple years, what they have not done in a decade and a couple years.
In fact, I'm not shocked, but fairly frustrated that Gnome 3.0 work hasn't tracked Google's Chrome work. Seriously, I'd be happy if Gnome 3.0 was just a port of ChromeOS for generic X86 hardware.
Currently, gnome-shell, the heart of what will be Gnome 3.0, feels like a mish-mosh of half-baked ideas, forced workflow and some glitzy eye-candy to me. I don't find any improvement in productivity aside from not having to click to get a main panel menu. Secret key combinations, screen-filling menus, epic lists of un-deletable recent items, an alt-tab that requires three hands to use, these are just some of the pleasures the linux desktop sadists have in-store for us.
Yikes, this seems to be the beginning of the end for Gnome/Gtk etc. to me. Google, if you're interested, I'd be willing to run your OS on my x86 linux desktop, happy even.... begging even?
Gnome, if you're listening... oh right, you're not. So-long, and thanks for all the software.
-ry
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