XPde 0.5 - A Linux Desktop for Windows Users 460
Nissan Dookeran writes "From the website: 'The XPde Team today announced the immediate availability of XPde 0.5.0, a complete rewrite of the XPde desktop environment...XPde aims to recreate the Windows XP desktop environment on Linux in order to allow Windows users to "feel at home" in front of a Linux computer' Full announcement of release here with screenshots here. Might be a good transitional tool for Windows users looking not wanting to give up their eye-candy interface initially. The main page also has a good PDF document regarding legal issues when developing software that emulates Windows functions. A StarOffice version of the document also available."
Morphix LiveCD of XPde (Score:5, Informative)
non x86? (Score:3, Informative)
So can I run this completely rewritten version on our Sun boxes?
Mirrors (Score:3, Informative)
xpde.qadram.com
xpde.holobit.net
xpde.tech-critic.com
xpde.abenks.com
xpde.debian.co.nz
toxic-systems.de/xpde
xpde.linuxring.hu
xpde.gaesi.org
xpde.jt-webservice.de
This eye candy is not what will make linux popular (Score:3, Informative)
GNU/Linux is diffrent then windows! I hope it will always remain so, but when talking about user friendlyness the problem isn't with switching windows or what your icons look like, it is more about setting up programs.
In the GNU/Linux world people still open a text console on a every day basis, Somw of us find it the more convinient way of managing the system.
I have several times tried using some automatic configuration tool(usually by Mandrake) and quickly found myself opening emacs in a split window with a man page and a config file.
In many cases the problem is with the GNU/Linux gurus not being able to help with GUI tools. On several ocasions my brother came to me with linux questions how do I do this or that and I knew my way of doing it(Typing in a console window) but I knew very little of which GUI tool will do the job and how.
These are the major issues in GNU/Linux UI
Me
Mirror of the screenshot (Score:4, Informative)
Screenshot [phnet.fi]
A shot of the 0.5.0 release, the rest of shots are from the previous release.
Re:I'm not convinced by that PDF (Score:4, Informative)
Cut & Paste Mirror List (Score:1, Informative)
xpde.holobit.net [holobit.net]
xpde.tech-critic.com [tech-critic.com]
xpde.abenks.com [abenks.com]
xpde.debian.co.nz [debian.co.nz]
toxic-systems.de/xpde [toxic-systems.de]
xpde.linuxring.hu [linuxring.hu]
xpde.gaesi.org [gaesi.org]
xpde.jt-webservice.de [jt-webservice.de]
Jonah Hex [slashdot.org]
hexagon.tk [hexagon.tk]
More Xpde (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Wohoo! choice! (Score:1, Informative)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idylli
Re:Wow (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Good...bad...no - good! (Score:4, Informative)
That said, I agree with you about the GUI. One of the reasons I stopped using Linux (after having used it in some capacity for about 4 years) is that, to my eyes, XP is just prettier.
Seriously though if you have been using linux for around 4 years you must have seen many many cases where Linux can look soooo much nicer than XP's fisherprice look and feel, sheesh!
I've got mine set up to look like OSX Panther
here [blackapology.com] is a screenshot! how subjective is that ? And personally if I had to stare at those garish XP colors all day i'd imagine my eyes would hurt pretty bad.
Re:Cool (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Just a quick note from a "windows user" (Score:3, Informative)