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[Washington Irving <washton.irving@xxxxxxxxx>]

G T Smith wrote:
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> Basil Chupin wrote:
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> I do not think that sparking off a desktop religious war is terribly
> helpful at this point. (Especially, with some of the other fireworks
> going off around this issue).
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> If KDE4 is moving toward a  'user friendly' == 'dumbing down' path I am
> among those not interested. I used to choose KDE over Gnome mainly
> because Gnome tended to be rather counter intuitive to use and ugly to
> look at, but I always felt that KDE tried too hard at being a poor mans
> Windows clone, (and I was never a particular fan of the Post 3.x systems).

KDE started out being based on the principles of CDE, which
is re-named HP-VUE.  A major improvement over CDE, however, was
putting minimized processes in the task bar instead of on the
desktop like in CDE/HP-VUE.
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