On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, David Murphy wrote:
> Quoting <15AD5D7936F8D21198240000F831776E3E7B31 at DBOEXC1>
> by Paul Jakma <Paul.Jakma at Digital.com>:
>> > > OpenLook was clean. It wasn't as functional as CDE - CDE is an
> > > improvement.
>> > an improvement? in what ways? ok, per default it comes with more
> > 'desktop utilities'. but that's about it. Any functional
> > improvements of CDE over openlook are totally overshadowed by it's
> > sickening ugliness... (that chunky Motif 1.x look.... ughh)
>> Virtual desktops.
So now, instead of having one crappy looking desktop with crappy looking
applications, you can have four (or more) different ones. Fortunately, CDE
is not a necessity. My Ultra-5 is at the moment running KDE - better
looking, easier to play around with, and I can always put desktop links to
any dtapps or sdtapps I want. Unfortunately, the lab machines acn't get
the same treatment :-(
Ciao,
Miles (Kieran Colfer)
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