22 Oct
2018
22 Oct
'18
1:54 p.m.
On 10/22/2018 08:14 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
*Every* Unix desktop out there draws on Win95.
Nope. That's simply not true.
The following three vast families of window managers / desktops prove
(to my satisfaction) that your statement is wrong.
? Common Desktop Environment (a.k.a. CDE) and it's ilk.
? The various *Box window managers / desktop environments.
? Motif window manager and it's ilk.
They are all significantly different from each other and from Windows's
Explorer interface, first publicly debuting with Windows 95.
The Win95 Explorer re-wrote the book on OS UI design.
"A" book, maybe. I don't think it was "the" book.
The _only_ company to resist was Apple, because of
course, some of the
reasons that Win95 is the way it is are attempts to do things differently
from Apple so as not to get sued.
I think /company/ is critical in that statement as it implies for profit
business which excludes many other non-business related options. Even
then, IBM, Sun, HP, etc were releasing commercial Unixes with CDE and /
or Motif after Windows 95.
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Grant. . . .
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