[TriLUG] redhat-config-network question

Benjamin Reed ranger at befunk.com
Fri Feb 28 07:31:54 EST 2003


Brent Fox wrote:

> I don't know what the founders of Gnome and KDE believed.  What I do
> know is that Apple was able to create Aqua for MacOS X in less time than
> KDE and Gnome have existed.  As far as I can tell, Aqua is generally
> regarded as superior to just about all other desktops in terms of
> consistency, usability, and look and feel.  The Linux desktop efforts
> are just beginning to understand things about UI design that Apple has
> known for years.  Consistency *is* a good thing.  

As an aside, Aqua is a direct descendent of Display Postscript (from 
NeXT), it has a *ton* of history.  They most definitely didn't write it 
overnight.  They just turned Display Postscript into Display PDF and 
then renamed it with a marketing name.




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