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GNOME2: And I thought M$ was the only people ripping off Apple
psyjax:
quote:The point I was trying to make was you can't complain about it on one end and accept it as OK on the other end (unless someone would like to make the claim that Apple invented UNIX).
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You know, that would be a fun flame-bait question for a linux forum somewhere :D
But seriously, I was getting more too the point in my previous post. Speaking about Makeing a totaly new GUI. Something compleatly devoid of any common concepts.
But I suppose that's more of a pipe dream or somethin.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by psyjax:
Anyway, it occured to me that things can be done in a diffrent way, and if I were one of those programmers out to change the world like the open source folks, I would probably be trying things in a VERY diffrent way.
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But what you are forgetting is that there *are* window managers that you can run on Linux (as well as other unices) that are *VERY* different than what Apple or Microsoft has produced. Sure open source programmers copy other GUI environments, but they certainly don't just copy Apple. Look at lesstif, Openlook, twm, etc.
But there are plenty of innovative window managers out there. The popular ones seem to be the ones that have incorporated certain features of other popular GUIs that people are familiar with. I believe there are radically different GUIs that are superior, but they are not the most popular. If people are familiar with something they choose to use what they are familiar with so they don't have to (heaven forbid) learn something new.
But like I said, I believe UNIX is a tried and true OS to base your desktop operating system on. Apple seems to have realized this as well. Again I applaud them for choosing this path. It does get on my nerves when they turn around and complain about getting something back, even if developed separately.
[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
cocoamix:
quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
No he isnt... it was posted here a while ago. There is a new music player that wanted to look like itunes and be for linux. Well, the people making it were threatened by apples lawyers and are redoing it.
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I posted that link a couple of months ago. It was called xTunes.
http://www.tex9.com/software/xtunes.php
Kintaro:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by Panos:
[QB]
KDE's Qt toolkit was, is and will be superior! And it has stopped being closed source ages ago! You should really check it out before posting
Trolltech FAQs
It looks dodgy, and gives Linux a bad name...
KDE Sucks, whats the idea behind single click icons? Its stupid. And its clunky, bluecurce will hack both there asses but bluecurve is gnome based.
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Kintaro:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
I am serious. I have always liked KDE better than Gnome although I have been using Gnome2 since installing RedHat 8.0. What exactly is the "dock"? Is it the top menu they show? If so, there is no top menu in RedHat's default installation of Gnome, I personally do not like that top menu. In fact I could get along just fine with one ICON and no menu at all. The ICON could be labeled any of the following "Eterm", "Konsole", "xterm". But I'm not normal.
[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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I use a top bar, and a bottom bar.
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