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This is really nice, thanks for sharing. Looking back, the obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows, was a remarkably good user interface. (Or, many people sim
by marttt 3y ago
This is really nice, thanks for sharing. Looking back, the obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows, was a remarkably good user interface. (Or, many people simply have a soft spot for it, because we used it for a very long time.)
I imagine Ede would play perfectly with Tiny Core Linux [1] which has FLTK/FLWM as its default desktop system.
1: http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
- timeon 3y ago> obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows Which was inspired by NextStep.
- marttt 3y agoThanks for the addition, apparently I'm too young to know this. Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_desktop.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_...
- LeFantome 3y agoWindows is quite an explicit lift of the interface design guidelines specified by IBM as Common User Access ( CUA ). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access CUA predates NeXT by quite a lot and so the influence would mostly be going the other way. CUA was the design paradigm chosen for OS/2, a joint project between IBM and Microsoft. When Microsoft started the Windows Project ( after OS/2 ) they pretty explicitly adopted CUA for it as well.
- asystole 3y agoIf you like this style of UI, check out serenityOS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity).
- drivingmenuts 3y agoThey all look the same to me. Perhaps the devil is in the details, but visually, they all look like Windows, except the ones that look like MacOS. The only system that doesn't look like either, that I can think of, is Plan 9.
- asystole 3y agoPlan9 is certainly unique and opinionated. Nextstep/Openstep/WindowMaker and RiscOS are two others that come to mind.
- trws 3y agoArguably BeOS/Haiku could count too. It’s less obvious later and with experience with Linux stacking WMs, but it was pretty obviously a different lineage at the time.