Material Design is undoubtedly one of the most important novelties in Android Lollipop 5.0. The designers of Google have managed to create a series of elements for the interface of the applications that in particular, I love.
Unfortunately, to fully enjoy Material Design you have to use Android, but thanks to Quantum OS, we can have a Shell for our GNU / Linux with that appearance.
What is Quantum OS?
According to its developer, Michael Spencer/@iBeliever, your focus will be on creating a stable and easy-to-use operating system, with a strong emphasis on well thought out design.
Michael intends to develop a Shell desktop (and its applications) using mainly Qt5 y QML, which will allow to build highly polished and dynamic user interfaces.
Michael va a aprovechar inicialmente un sistema operativo existente para construir Quantum OS, lo más probable es que sea Arch o Ubuntu. Arch es una posibilidad fuerte debido a la gestor de empaquetado simple, su sistema base ligero, y el concepto rolling release. Eso si, al parecer quiere hacerlo en una distribución que tenga soporte para Wayland.
This is because the applications will use as a base a set of tools called QML-UI that already has Material Design included. Está escrito desde cero, y no utiliza controles QtQuick, y no es un fork o un tema para el conjunto de herramientas de interfaz de usuario de Ubuntu. Además, se tratará de hacer un tema QT/GTK para aplicaciones ya existentes.
My take on Quantum OS
At the moment everything looks very nice with Quantum OS, and when you have Material Design much more. It is true that there is still not much to see to be able to issue a solid criterion, but if at first (from the image above) it is going to start looking like Unity, we are not going to do it, unless it lets us customize the desktop.
Creating the necessary applications so that Quantum OS becomes a complete Desktop Environment I see it unnecessary, since there are many applications written in QT / QML that can be used, but anyway we should see the proposals that Michael Spencer is going to us bring and as always, alternatives are appreciated.
The project looks good, now we have to see if a single person can carry it out; although I am sure that if it turns out to be interesting in the short term, many others will join in and hopefully so. With this post, I hope to give it some promotion and spread the word.