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Re: Apple feels the squeeze from Linux

  • Subject: Re: Apple feels the squeeze from Linux
  • From: Sandman <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:57:11 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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In article <dmv2ak$2knu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>>> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=28612
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> KDE: isn't she a beauty?
> >>>>
> >>>> Seriously, you think that screen looks good? Apple is in better shape
> >>>> than I thought if this is the "competition". :-D
> 
> This  looks  very similar to Brushed/Aqua in Tiger, provided that you  ac-
> count for 'lossiness'. Consider this a /demonstration/ of the power of KDE
> --  its ability to adapt, match or emulate merely any other desktop  envi-
> ronment  once the appropriate bits and bobs and enabled. Functionality  at
> the core is key.

You're joking, right?

Seriously, if the above screenshot is as close to Aqua you can get on KDE, it's 
a showcase of it being very limited in "emulating" the UI of other operating 
systems.

Just the spacing between widgets is dreadful in itself.



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