On Thursday 09 October 2003 02:13, Rick Taylor wrote: > Jonathan Segel <jsegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >immediately realized that the makers of the linux desktop gui > >environments were coming from PC backgrounds! almost all > > remind me of > How you missed gnome, kde, etc is beyond me. In fact, both GNOME and KDE in their out of the box configurations might look a whole lot like Windows to a Mac user... though I have to admit I'm surprised yellowdog didn't set up a more familiar looking default (maybe to avoid legal threats from Apple, but they do exist.) Both have a context menu on the top left and minimize, maximize, close on the right, for example, and the widgets tend to be a lot more "metal with highlight and shadow" than either OS9 or OSX. Again, that sort of thing can be tweaked with themes but last I knew, Mac users don't get into themes quite as much as Linux or Windows users. Rob
