On Thursday 22 December 2005 11:53 am, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > The winner was a very nice desktop, and Marc Ewing was going to use it as > the next Red Hat default desktop. I told him "no", since what Red Hat > really wanted to do was get Windows users over, and Windows users wanted > something that was familiar to them. Unix users could create any type of > desktop they wanted.
I never really looked at it that way - good perspective. I think that's probably why I've always been with KDE. At first, it looked a lot like Windows, but now my desktops confuse others because I put little icon/taskbars of varying and dynamic lengths around the screen (or screens, gotta love xinerama) in places that make sense to me most. It's a nice evolution that you can only really do with an X desktop environment. I relate it back to the days of Windows 3.1, where I couldn't stand the Program Manager, so I had a heavily customized PCTools desktop as my shell, with virtual desktops and desktop menus, and all sorts of cool stuff. I remember wondering why more people didn't design better desktop shells for Windows after that - never really did find a good reason not to, but I guess PCTools never really took off in Windows 3.1 anyway. -N _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss