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Re: [opensuse] kde3 is gone... for 11.2
- From: Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:22:48 +0200
- Message-id: <200904180822.48469.tcoulon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 18 April 2009, Larry Stotler wrote:
To me it was the closest thing to the Workplace shell alltogether. If only IBM
would port this...
The Workplaceshell should be an inspiration, not Aero or Aqua. No one here has
answered the nbasic question as to _how_ the "eyecandy" (3D, transparency,
animations, bouncing icons, etc...) are supposed to increase _efficiency_
It seems to be sort of an axiom: we are told that all this is about increased
efficiency, but it is not to be demonstrated it seems
Thierry
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Honestly, I didn't pick KDE as my desktop because of how it looks. I
picked it because it works the way I do. It was the closest Linux
desktop to OS/2's Workplace shell,
To me it was the closest thing to the Workplace shell alltogether. If only IBM
would port this...
The Workplaceshell should be an inspiration, not Aero or Aqua. No one here has
answered the nbasic question as to _how_ the "eyecandy" (3D, transparency,
animations, bouncing icons, etc...) are supposed to increase _efficiency_
It seems to be sort of an axiom: we are told that all this is about increased
efficiency, but it is not to be demonstrated it seems
Thierry
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