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Re:Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop by butthatsit on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @04:00AM (#32992666)
There also used to be KDE on Windows - exactly what it sounds like, a full Plasma desktop running on Windows!
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Re:Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop by timeon on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @04:07AM (#32992704)
I was under naive impression that Plasma inspired look of Vista/7.
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Re:Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop by butthatsit on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:53AM (#32993359)
I don't think so, the Aero look and feel was out (in Longhorn betas) way before KDE4 came to be... But perhaps the Windows 7 look was influenced by it.

However, the current look of KDE - which is much more like Aero - is very recent, at least post Windows 8. KDE4 as it was at the beginning didn't look like Aero that much IMHO.

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