The Evolution of Desktops

[az0000000]

I think its pretty curious stuff to share.
See here The Evolution of Desktops!:

[lilsensa]

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damn!! those early ones are sooo primitive, wow

[SyntaxTerror]

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Strange that they include KDE but no sign of Gnome.

[az0000000]

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Strange that they include KDE but no sign of Gnome.

What is KDE by the way?

[mnbvcxz]

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KDE is an environment for unix

I'm looking at the picture of Windows 3.1 and feel nostalgic

[demonAfro]

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Hmm, I expect there might be more to the development of desktops than just Windows, Mac OS and KDE....

[az0000000]

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Hmm, I expect there might be more to the development of desktops than just Windows, Mac OS and KDE....

Well, i think there are too many already...

[SyntaxTerror]

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Hmm, I expect there might be more to the development of desktops than just Windows, Mac OS and KDE....

Precisely. The amount of window managers on the *nix platform alone will be well and truly above 50.

A lot of which have some very innovative design principles. A lot which take some interesting tacks for simplicity's sake.

Gnome's Human Interface Design (HID) guidelines makes for very interesting subject matter. They try and come up with a best practices framework which they recommend all applications follow on their platform to make the end user experience both easy and practical.

They pull it off very well for the most part.

[Funky Dredd]

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Windows 3.1....I just set this up on a virtual pc with a xp shell and sound. I just thought I would play around with it since it has been so long

[az0000000]

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Precisely. The amount of window managers on the *nix platform alone will be well and truly above 50.

A lot of which have some very innovative design principles. A lot which take some interesting tacks for simplicity's sake.

Gnome's Human Interface Design (HID) guidelines makes for very interesting subject matter. They try and come up with a best practices framework which they recommend all applications follow on their platform to make the end user experience both easy and practical.

They pull it off very well for the most part.

May be worth it switching to it from Windows...

[az0000000]

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just set this up on a virtual pc

I hear that notion quite often recently. What is that virtual pc anyway?

[Funky Dredd]

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It basically allows you to run another OS within your OS. Oh and it's free...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

/edit...like this

[az0000000]

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That is a nice thing.
Probably it requires a powerful machine.

[Funky Dredd]

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Not at all. You can specify how much ram you want it to take, video settings...basically everything. My laptop is only 1 gig of ram and I am running Vista Enterprise along with Win 3.1.

[picklemonkey]

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they forgot windows 2000