On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:22 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > So aside from more eye candy, I really don't see what either > KDE or GNOME do that CDE doesn't. Yeah, I know that GNOME is the > chosen direction, and maybe one or the other of the newer desktops > were needed to appeal to younger audiences...whatever. I just know > that I prefer lightweight to flashy, any day.
"Doing things that CDE couldn't" was never really much of a consideration when choosing a new desktop, AFAIK... CDE just wasn't likely to be open-sourced, which didn't fit with Sun's (then-flegdling) vision of freeing all its software. (FWIW, personally, I consider GNOME to have very little in the way of eye-candy... I still think it looks like something out of the mid-90's most of the time!) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
