On Wednesday 10 October 2001 10:37, you wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Neil Stevenson wrote:
>
> Ugh. Gnome, polished? I refer you to the quote from theregister about
> Gnome2.0, the roughcut release:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22025.html
>
> Made me laugh, anyway!
It is funny. One thing that should have made GNOME-ites worry, was when Sun
announced support for it. If you look at Sun's UI track record on picking
the wrong UI, it would surely be described by Private Eye readers as a
'curse of GNOME'.
"The latter has even managed to convince Sun and HP to compromise the
stability of their UNIX systems by pledging to make GNOME their default
desktop, replacing the ancient and widely loathed Motif-based CDE."
Makes me rather wonder, as CDE was based on HP's desktop, which at the time
was the most well liked (, IIRC Motif was also based on HP work). So what
did go wrong with it? Never having used CDE, was it implementation, or did
it simply stagnate and fall behind?
Rob
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