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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 3 May 2010 09:51:18 +0100 > Roland Tarver wrote: > >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> >> Do you think they are copying the Mac desktop? I think I read >> >> somewhere that Mark Shuttleworth likes mac's??? >> > >> > I'm not sure it's a question of "copying" anything else - let's face >> > it, there isn't really that much choice out there... left side or >> > right side. >> >> haha! no, I suppose not lol. >> >> > I have heard that there is a determination to have more "out of >> > the box" glitz that OSX. >> >> hmm - not sure if I'll like all that, but we shall see. I may have to >> go on a rampage similar to yours Grant :-p > > I quite liked UDE and UWM (Unix Desktop Environment and Unix Window > Manager... not to be confused with CDE the "Common Desktop > Environment") but it got to be a bit of a handful for general use; > really *didn't* like Blackbox, Fluxbox and their brethren; found some > things like Waimaeia (or however it's spelt) quite interesting. Really > got hooked on Sawfish. > > http://xwinman.org is a pretty good site about it. > > Grant. > Brilliant! That site deserves a book mark ;-) Many thanks :-) Best wishes roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html