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To: HAL9000
The user interface for desktop Linux is dreadful.

Which one?

Seriously, there are a number of them.

I use KDE 3.3.x. I find little to complain about.

Granted, it's not the best GUI ever, but neither is Windows, or Mac OS.

The best design for a GUI, IMO, was the OS/2 Workplace Shell. It was not always implemented in the best way, but it (and the underlying System Object Model) was, again IMO, the best foundation for an object-oriented GUI ever.

I wish that IBM could open up the source for SOM/WPS and give it to the KDE developers.

50 posted on 02/05/2005 10:13:24 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: B Knotts
Granted, it's not the best GUI ever, but neither is Windows, or Mac OS.

Mac OS X is arguably the best commercially available GUI so far.

If you have a different GUI in mind, what is it?

56 posted on 02/05/2005 11:14:24 AM PST by HAL9000 (Skype me at "FreeRepublic")
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To: B Knotts
Sorry, I missed your OS/2 statement.

Have a look at Cocoa - Apple's object-oriented framework for software development. It is an elegant solution for development with the Mac OS X environment, with the "InterfaceBuilder" application for GUI design, and XCode IDE for development with Objective C++ and Java.

Cocoa is based on the award-winning "NeXTStep" development system.

57 posted on 02/05/2005 11:24:12 AM PST by HAL9000 (Skype me at "FreeRepublic")
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