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Re: [LUG] Clusters, Servers, Networks - window manager

 

Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:34:44PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
>   
>> Looking for something totally unrelated I found this, its a window 
>> manager that looks like XP, just thought it may be useful on any boxes, 
>> that we use on this network at the community centre, to make people feel 
>> more at home with what is installed.
>>
>> http://www.xpde.com/shots.php
>>
>> Just an idea, for a UI, its probably pretty light weight at the same 
>> time which is also a good thing
>>     
>
> Of course, you have to not mind that XP is hideously ugly.
>
> It'd probably be more useful, if you wanted to have a desktop looking
> as much like Windows as possible, to theme KDE or Gnome, since they
> have the applications to go with it.
>
>   
agreed, the xp desktop background is horrible,  as for the start menu, 
(urgg),  any ideas on making the experience as good as possible is 
welcome.  It was just an idea,  

the alternative is to just go for the standard Linux (kde or gnome) look 
and feel,    and teach people from that.

any experience must be positive for the end user (new, existing user or 
perhaps experienced user),.  otherwise we have given Linux and what ever 
distro we use a bad impression and people will stick with windows.

I do agree however that certain aspects of the look and feel may still 
be windows like, for example click to change window focus, and how the 
windows behave, 

we have some time to sort all this out,  so lets debate it, 

Paul

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