[Klug-general] Window Managers

[Danny Stewart]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:53:41AM +0100, Julia Freeman wrote:
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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. 
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> 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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It was/is also still the default DE for AIX machines. I had customers
not so long ago who did CAD on AIX machines.