> That's because Apple effectively suppressed any GUI that remotely looked
> like the Mac interface. If my memory is correct, GEM was squashed by
Apple,
> not Microsoft. The trashcan icon was the undoing. Until MS won in court,
> nobody dared look too much like PARC.
PC releases of GEM were significantly changed after Apple took DRI to court.
GEM/1 (Desktops up to v1.2 I think) had a very Mac-like interface, while
GEM/2 (2.0 was OEM only, 2.1 was the consumer version) and onwards had the
following alterations:
* The Desktop had two fixed windows (although one of them could be set to
full-screen) and no icons on the desktop - they were relegated to the Disk
Drives: view.
* Scrollbars were made thinner
* Patterns in the window titlebars were removed
Atari versions were unaffected by the changes.
New versions of GEM for the PC (the FreeGEM AES by John Elliott, and the
FreeGEM Desktops by Ken Mauro and myself) are moving back toward the GEM/1 /
Mac style interface. All that remains to be done is to get those little
icons for disks back onto the desktop.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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