[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“The motivation for elementary started long before project
leader Daniel Foré had ever even heard of Linux. Back in
those early days he was a Windows user (like many of us), who got
caught up in the idea of making Windows look like OS X.“There are now many parts to elementary and the project is
currently working on several ideas at once. Still prevalent is the
ever popular elementary icon set and GTK theme (called eGTK for
short), but searching wider than that we find efforts to improve
Midori (the lightweight GTK Webkit based web browser) and even
Nautilus, GNOME’s built-in file manager. There’s even an elementary
Theme Addon for Firefox. The goal for elementary is to improve many
individual aspects of the Linux desktop and feed them upstream,
while at the same time pulling it all together into a new and
exciting desktop experience. Many of their modifications to
Nautilus for example came from rejected Bugzilla patches and those
that weren’t, have been sent upstream. If their work to-date is
anything to go by, this is definitely one project to keep an eye
on.”