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! -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
