At 6:39 PM -0500 2/16/00, Nat wrote:
>> the OS/2 Workplace Shell. If you closely, a lot of the widgets in Windows
>> are clearly stolen from NextStep (too bad none of NextStep's classy "look"
>> and well-thought-out "feel" rubbed off on Windows).
>
>Which is why I (and Matt Hiller) prefer such UIs as WindowMaker, which
>looks almost exactly like Nextstep in many ways. A very uncluttered
>desktop, which is what I prefer. The default menus included in KDE/Gnome
>never did fit the software I had installed (I was using LinuxPPC, so this
>perhaps makes a difference) and didn't really tell me much about using
>Linux, so I just ended doing nearly everything out of xterms anyway.
>
>I dunno about constant interface improvements- Linux seemed terribly
>difficult to use back when I didn't know what a pipe was. Now fancy
>menus/taskbars/desktops seem to get in the way. I am very eager to see
>what Mac OS X is like in final form, however. I hope a lot of NextStep
>rubs off on that, though I'm not sure how well that'll integrate with the
>traditional Mac UI.
>
>Nat
Take a look at at http://www.xappeal.org
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