On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:42:52 -0700 James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Carl-Valentin Schmitt wrote: > CDE stands for Common Desktop Environment which is a Desktop for UNIX. > > I think that the point was to make a free replacement for it. > However, KDE wound up being more of a MS-Windows clone and another > project has become the replacement for the Common Environment (Xfce). Although a default install of XFCE now looks more like KDE3 than KDE4 does. The traditional look of CDE, with the big free-standing toolbar, was never very practical away from the huge monitors that were bundled with traditional unix workstations. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.