Seriously: You can't just incorporate some design element and go "see, it looks like X". It won't. What most people making software seem to miss is that software look & feel isn't the design of widgets, but also click behavior, layouts, click paths, description texts, animations, delay after a click ...
/tangentially related rant
Given that, why would they go to the effort or recreating the whole visual appearance. The actual "feel" part was unlikely to be within the scope of the project.
I really miss the windows XP theme. It was super clean and consistent compared to the shit show we have now.
Probably my fav was during the betas before they added the intense blue/green "Luna" theme.
> isn't the design of widgets, but also click behavior, layouts, click paths, description texts, animations, delay after a click ...
Which I find troublesome with Gnome