[Klug-general] Window Managers

[Julia Freeman]

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:43:28AM +0100, David Halliday wrote:
> My likening fluxbox to EvilWM was based only on its being light weight,
> less thrills and not being one of:
> Gnome
> KDE
> XFCE
> (there might be others now)
> which offer on top of a window manager lots of extra applications for admin,
> productivity etc... Perhaps I should have expressed that it is a window
> manager project rather than a desktop environment type project... But where
> the line is drawn...

One of the desktop environments I mentioned on Saturday was CDE. Which was
the Desktop Environment used by Solaris 15 years ago. 

http://dosnlinux.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/cde-jzaremski.jpg

This screenshot shows some of the basic features. 

It was a nice system to use and generally well designed. But, alas it has
fallen out of favour now Gnome is becoming more "Stable". 

J
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