In 2000, my work Conectiva required in using Linux with the build tools and development, because of that, I felt comfortable just working in text mode. With the emergence of interesting ideas on the Web, I had to make the transition to work on the console to the graphical mode.
was only with the WindowMaker is that I fell like using the Linux graphic color. The WindowMaker is a window manager for X, and was developed by Alfredo Kojima, I had the honor of working at Conectiva and still keep in contact # d00dz the Freenode. The WindowMaker
demand imitiar graphically the behavior of the NextStep environment, following the line of the year 90, the components are square, and use dark colors like black and dark gray, and the default background (which is me) purple. For those unaware, the NextStep evolved into what is Mac OS X today.
Curtia the WindowMaker Dock, which is where you shoot most used applications. In the Dock is possible to have several mini-applications such as mini prison windows, such as the classic CPU meter, memory and network.
The application menu and control was suspended and was obviously not fixed as in other environments, something cool desktop in 800x600 or 1024x768 because it freed up space for the application window principal who wanted to run, for example, the Netscape browser.
The WindowMaker is easy to use only that is very different from the behavior of Windows and maybe it was not very popular with users of traditional PC. All that remained was a "something else" that WindowMaker was the perfect environment for the Linux desktop.
And for that there was a project funded by the FSF in the year 1990, the API and porting environment using NextStep / OpenStep, GNUstep called for GNU / Linux. Too bad it was never taken seriously by his great helmsman. To tell the truth, the great helmsman fell into a wordy and Mexican bought the idea for the Gnome project, to fight against the evil and (then) owner of the KDE project, so the GNUstep was ostracized.
Gnome or KDE never interested me and I got my WindowMaker widower with GNUstep. The dream is over for me and now use Mac OS X that is the evolution of what I said. I was told that a French group continues to play the GNUstep project, but the reality is the Linux Gnome or KDE.
For me, it was a good memory and longing for WindowMaker with Linux, worth Kojima! The
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