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Re:CDE 2.5.1 by srvmshr on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:47PM (#33252066)
The design aesthetics of early Gnome, KDE was influenced a lot by classic Macintosh, BeOS and the likes. And classic UI was genuinely great. It never came in the way - agreed that you had to live with the defaults most times - but the defaults were mostly good.

The race to customizability & the notion that GUI correspondence could win some Win9x fence sitters over, really did it big time for future Gnome & KDE.

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Re:CDE 2.5.1 by Lammy on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:03PM (#33253924)
KDE 1.x in particular took a lot of influence from CDE. See the design of the taskbar, virtual desktop switcher, window decorations, scrollbars etc in these screenshots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Desktop_Environment_1

This is the reason behind all the s/C/K naming substitutions within the KDE ecosystem!

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