3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
7 p.m.
On 3 June 2013 21:30, Mark Longridge <cubexyz at gmail.com> wrote:
Please don't top-quote.
People may not be aware that a lot of the ideas for
Motif/CDE and
Windows and later versions of MSDOS actually came from IBM's Common
User Access.
Not everything came from CUA, but a good chunk of it did.
Yup. If you look at the edit history for the Wikipedia article on CUA,
you might spot a familiar name as the page creator. :?)
Microsoft's windows 95 didn't invent all that.
But a lot of it came from Windows 1 and 2 and 3...
The task bar itself
appeared earlier in Arthur OS, I think it was back in 1987.
Specifically addressed in the article. You will also note that I write
most of the RISC OS coverage in the Register, and before that, in the
Inquirer. :?)
The icon bar is not a taskbar. The taskbar has 2 main defining innovations:
[1] a hierarchical app-launch menu
[2] a graphical window-switcher
The RISC OS icon bar has neither, even today.
Even
Amiga's Workbench had a lot of the GUI elements although in a more
primitive form.
*Different* GUI elements, though. A real mish-mash of influences, some
from the Mac, some from Unix GUIs, some all its own. It
was truly
original, far more so than KDE or GNOME 2.
Did the KDE guys make their DE look a lot like win95?
Yeah, I think
they did. So did IceWM and probably other ones. Icewm has a lot of
differences though, it's a lot more light-weight. But even with KDE
3.5.X there's a bunch of things that are different from win95...
Absolutely, yes. But the core desktop feature set of KDE 1.0 was quite
/remarkably/ like Windows 95's.
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