Oh I remember EDE being briefly reviewed some 20 years ago in local Linux magazine and if I'm not mistaken being a part of Mandrake packages selection
EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
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Re: EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
#32Have we arrived at where everybody knows what a desktop environment should look like? I mean, an end to experiments and variants and improvements. We all know how it should be and anything else is wrong. I would like that.
Different people want different things because they use computers in different ways. That's ok. I personally am very happy with my sway setup - it works fantastically for me but most people would honestly hate it. That's ifne - I wouldn't force anyone else to use it.
And yet for 99% of the cases we have a certain way we like them to be. And I'm in that 99%. And we know exactly what I'm talking about. So for all intents and purposes, fuck the edge cases. Let's focus on the archetype.
Re: EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Different people want different things because they use computers in different ways. That's ok. I personally am very happy with my sway setup - it works fantastically for me but most people would honestly hate it. That's ifne - I wouldn't force anyone else to use it.
And yet for 99% of the cases we have a certain way we like them to be. And I'm in that 99%. And we know exactly what I'm talking about. So for all intents and purposes, fuck the edge cases. Let's focus on the archetype.
Not 100% sure what point you’re making. Mainstream desktop O/Ss strive to service this 99%, so you have an abundance of choice. Windows, MacOS, KDE, Ubuntu are all there to cater to you.
Re: EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
#34EDE is a standalone WM/DE with a Windows 9x look XPde was a similar project, but with a Windows XP look. Their site seems dead, though I'm sure the software could be found out there somewhere https://web.archive.org/web/20070825005617/http://www.xpde.c...
How does it compare to using icewm or fvwm95?
Re: EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
#35There's Dillo and Florb (Open Street Maps client). Now we just need a simple MPV UI and some kind of FLMail client. On office suites, someone should modernize Siag Office with XFT and Unicode support.
If anyone says "that's outdated crap", Siag supports RTF, and the spreadsheet module could just use plugins written in Scheme with incredible features related to number crunching. Printing? PostScript and PDF, problem solved.
Re: EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
theres a windows 9x total conversion out there iirc
Chicago95 theme for XFCE is great
Takes some tuning but Chicago95 can become a very convincing clone of early Windows GUI. Back when they did user research and every element had methology and reason behind it.
Re: EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
#37Re: EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, FLTK instead of GTK is a big one. Also, EDE more closely mimics the Win98 Explorer rather than GNOME. EDE is also lighter weight.
But it's the same desktop, menus, windows, icons thing with nothing fancy tacked on pretty much. Right?
Not quite. The crystal icon set is not, to my knowledge, the default in any GNOME version though it was in some KDE3 releases. The menus and window design of EDE are very Win98, while those of GNOME are slightly different depending upon the Metacity theme in use. EDE has a few other tweaks and add-ons, but it lacks the MATE/GNOME2 plugin ecosystem.