Desktop Environments (Graphic Subsystems)

Desktop Environments further on these related pages:

Amiga@ CDE@ Engelbart, Douglas@ GEM GNOME KDE

KDE Kay, Alan@ Mac OS@ The Humane Environment Windows@ X Window System@

Desktop Environments Sites:

DeXtop DeXtop: GUI for Unix workstations, now runs on Linux, is Common Desktop Environment (CDE) from The Open Group, based on OpenMotif 2.2.1. Runs on all Accelerated-X brand of X servers, and other X-compliant X servers. [Commercial] (Desktop Environments) http://www.xig.com/Pages/DeXtopGUI.html Future GUIs Future GUIs: News of OS, GUI, software, related hardware developments. Updates irregularly, often interesting tidbits. (Desktop Environments) http://www.futureguis.net/ Hooray for Bluecurve Hooray for Bluecurve: Article praises, analyses Red Hat's new user interface in their Linux 8.0. [Linux Review] (Desktop Environments) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6476 The GUI Gallery The GUI Gallery: Surprisingly large and thorough Graphical User Interface list, with timeline, screenshots, downloads, links. Very useful resource for students of computer interfaces. (Desktop Environments) http://toastytech.com/guis/ The Definitive Desktop Environment Comparison The Definitive Desktop Environment Comparison: Compares UI and usability of several desktop environments (DEs) that are widely used, admired, reviled: Windows XP Luna, BeOS 6 (Dano/Zeta), Mac OS X Aqua, Unix KDE and GNOME. Large article with many forum comments. [OSNews.com] (Desktop Environments) http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3064 ESSoft ESSoft: Was EdSoft. Makes software in C/C++, BASIC, Visual Basic, for DOS on bare x86, Windows (Win32), GNU/Linux. Much of it is free GNU GPL. Main product is ESSoft-GUI a DOS GUI with some applications. Also education and game programs. (Desktop Environments) http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/pipexdsl/p/apsk43/essoft/ XFce XFce: Lightweight desktop environment for various Unix systems, easy to use and configure, fast, XFce 3 is based on GTK+. Description, downloads, screenshots, links, credits. [Open Source, GPL] (Desktop Environments) http://www.xfce.org/ XPde XPde: A desktop environment(XPde) and a window manager(XPwm) for Linux. It tries to make easier for Windows XP users to use a Linux box. Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt applications, no emulation of Windows applications, no unificati (Desktop Environments) http://www.xpde.com/ DesktopX DesktopX: Extends Windows desktop to support true objects (can be anything) instead of passive icons, use one by one, or mix together to form themes; build your own desktop interface, even if not a programmer. [Stardock Corporation, Inc.] (Desktop Environments) http://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/ GUIdebook GUIdebook: A website dedicated to preserving and showcasing as many Graphical User Interfaces as possible. Lots of screenshots and icons. (Desktop Environments) http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook Alternative Linux Desktop Environment Alternative Linux Desktop Environment: Provides C++/Java application framework. (Desktop Environments) http://sourceforge.net/projects/alde/ The GPE Palmtop Environment The GPE Palmtop Environment: A project whose aim is to provide a Free Software GUI environment for Palmtop/Handheld computers running the GNU/Linux operating system. (Desktop Environments) http://gpe.handhelds.org/ Xfce Desktop Environment Xfce Desktop Environment: Runs on FreeBSD, Linux, SunOS/Solaris; English, French, German. Description, downloads, CVS, screenshots, bug reports, fora. [Open Source, GPL; SourceForge.net] (Desktop Environments) http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfce/ foXdesktop foXdesktop: Lightweight desktop environment, uses Fox multiplatform C++ widget set. [Open Source, LGPL] (Desktop Environments) http://foxdesktop.sourceforge.net/ Smashplay Smashplay: Web-based desktop GUI, looks and acts like Windows and Mac OS. Using Flash so users can open a variety of programs and have control over the interface. (Desktop Environments) http://www.smashplay.com/ EDE - Equinox Desktop Environment EDE - Equinox Desktop Environment: Main goals of this project are simplicity, speed, minimal memory usage (if possible), good look and fell and stability. That does not mean it will be for 8086. It's FLTK-based. (Desktop Environments) http://ede.sourceforge.net/