KDE, CDE & MS Windows

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 06:12, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:40:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > No, KDE is like CDE, not like Windows if we're going to make an
> > > accurate comparison.
> > 
> > I always wondered if there was a linkage there.
> > However, if at one time it was like CDE, it's not anymore.  It looks
> > a *lot* like Windows to me...
> 
> Well, so does CDE in that case.
> http://www.plig.org/xwinman/screenshots/dtwm.gif
> 
> Note the striking resemblence between the panel in KDE and CDE.  Note
> the clearly MS-ish title and window bars.  kwin looks like afterstep
> trying to be Explorer to me.

I dunno.  With themes, though, how can you really say one thing that
a particular wm looks like anymore.  Just click on a button in a config
window, and poof, your windows look like MacOS, OSX, OS/2, Win95, XP,
CDE, etc, etc.

Now for something that looks like CDE, xfwm/xfce is it...

> > > Windows is fairly unique in it's lossage.
> > 
> > What do you mean "lossage" in this context?  Loss of stability,
> > coherence (there's a huge API cruft under there), or something
> > else?
>
> Yes.

Gotta agree with you there!
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