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Thinking about Desktop Environments, Window Managers and how to get a lightweight desktop

Posted by Moose on · 4 comments
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Recently I have been pondering the always recurrent problem of desktop environments and window managers. What with the advent of Gnome 3 and Unity the old ways of using panels and the like appear to be fading into the past.

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JaseP ·
I know that this is slightly off topic, but if you have a chance, check out the Ars Technica feature on the OS X Lion desktop,... remind you of anything?!?! Gnome 3 or Unity, maybe?!?!
caitlyn ·
Both Windows 8 and Lion use the basic concepts that started on netbooks and were migrated and refined in Moblin/MeeGo, Android, Unity and GNOME 3, in that order.
jacog ·
But I bet only the last two in that line have any registered patents for this stuff and likely to accuse the others of leeching off their intellectual property.
JaseP ·
Do you mean the first two (Windoze or OS X Lion), or Gnome and Unity (Canonical) that have patents??? I haven't heard of the Gnome Foundation or Canonical exercising patents aggressively against anyone. M$ and Apple on the other hand...

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