OSNews > Thread > "Looks a bit familiar" by rajan r

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Dec 2008 14:07 UTC, submitted by Ian Dumych

There are lots of interesting desktop environments for X, other than the big ~~two~~ three GNOME, KDE, and Xfce. One of those is Etoile, a highly modular and leightweight environment based on GNUstep. Etoile is entirely project and document based, which means that you focus on your documents, and not on applications. Earlier this month - and we missed it, my apologies - the project released version 0.4.0.

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Looks a bit familiar

by rajan r on Tue 2nd Dec 2008 05:19 UTC

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2005-07-27

ÃtoilÃ© does differ from OpenStep in a number of ways, just judging from the screenshots. Menu bar on top, dock centred. Gee, I wonder where they thought of that.

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RE: Looks a bit familiar

by tyrione on Tue 2nd Dec 2008 06:42 in reply to "Looks a bit familiar"

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2005-11-21

My one fantasy wish is that future major releases of OS X will allow me to do either a dwrite or preference set to give me back my vertical floating, tear off windows.

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