In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:33:04 +0100
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> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:30 \__
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Richard Rasker
>> <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:00:30 +0200
>> <pan.2007.04.25.08.00.29.904076@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Op Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:02:46 +0100, schreef [H]omer:
>>>
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that ed spake thusly:
>>>>> sorry if this was already posted
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno
>>>>
>>>> LOL! That's the best GooTube video yet!
>>>>
>>>> Outstanding.
>>>
>>> This one's not quite as funny, but right on the mark nonetheless:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard Rasker
>>>
>>
>> [1] Spotlight upper left vs lower right.
>> [2] Sidebar Widgets vs. Gadgets.
>> [3] Chess prog marble wood grass metal vs Marble Wood Porcelain.
>>
>> Therefore Microsoft did not duplicate Mac OS X.
>>
>> (OK.......)
>
> Many of these things Apple didn't INNOVA~1 either, but there you go...
>
> Panel 'widgets', for instance, have existed since I started using Red Hat
> Linux in 2000.
>
I don't think RedHat innovated them either; they've been
part of Gnome for awhile. I don't think Gnome innovated
them.
At this point I'm not sure who did. Win95 had its tray,
mwm had an option to hold opened windows. NeXT had the
notion of "docking".
Oddly, Xerox Star did not have docking; icons were
put on a stippled background. (Mentor Graphics had a
similar variant in their pre-8.0 software, though the
icons in MG's case had to do with documents and folders;
Star looks like it also put launchable programs thereon.
Modern desktops can have a similar mix, but also offer
quite a few other options.)
I have no idea what happened to the monk staring off
into space. Apparently nobody else picked him up. :-)
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