Was I the only one who shed a tear when XFCE stopped having the CDE-alike panel design?
I wonder if it's sort of a signal of the evolution of the free-software desktop experience.
A lot of the '90s/'00s paradigms were pretty strongly "we're trying to replicate the experience of a lustworthy expensive system" -- see WindowMaker/AfterStep to look like a NeXT, FVWM to look like Motif back when that was expensive and proprietary, IceWM offering OS/2 style themes, and how everyone went to make workalike themes when the QNX Photon "full desktop on a 1.44M floppy" demo disc dropped.
Now, they just have their own styles, but at the same time, they seem less uniquely identifiable.
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Was I the only one who shed a tear when XFCE stopped having the CDE-alike panel design?
I wonder if it's sort of a signal of the evolution of the free-software desktop experience.
A lot of the '90s/'00s paradigms were pretty strongly "we're trying to replicate the experience of a lustworthy expensive system" -- see WindowMaker/AfterStep to look like a NeXT, FVWM to look like Motif back when that was expensive and proprietary, IceWM offering OS/2 style themes, and how everyone went to make workalike themes when the QNX Photon "full desktop on a 1.44M floppy" demo disc dropped.
Now, they just have their own styles, but at the same time, they seem less uniquely identifiable.