Gnome never tried to copy Windows except for Bonobo/Corba. KDE OTOH tried to combine every GUI into a single place, making it usable to any user. Mac OS? Risc

Gnome never tried to copy Windows except for Bonobo/Corba. KDE OTOH tried to combine every GUI into a single place, making it usable to any user. Mac OS? RiscOS? Be? Die-hard Unix with Motif? KDE1 (and more 2 and 3) allowed that into widgets/window decorations and much more. But I prefer stuff like IceWM+XFE if I had to choose a desktop like environment. No desktop icons, the menu has shortcut entries and a subdir navigator allowing you to open anything with either the file-manager or xdg-open. It has a virtual desktop switcher, a task switcher, a systay and a clock.