<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Albert Graef <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aggraef@gmail.com" target="_blank">aggraef@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>As I still remember the times when we did all that graphical stuff with nothing but Xlib and maybe that horrible Athena toolkit (yeah, that's that lonely libXt.so that's been sitting there in your /usr/lib for years wondering why noone loves it any more), I'm on your side there. Let's face it, before the advent of GTK and Qt, the Linux GUI simply looked like sh*t. :) Even Motif looked like an improvement, and nobody talks about that anymore either.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If anyone needs a reminder how the Linux GUI looked in the bad old days (around 1994/95, there might be some people on this list who weren't even born back then), here's a rather typical screenshot from that era:<br><br><a href="http://chuck.burkins.net/xfm.jpg">http://chuck.burkins.net/xfm.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Yeah, that's xfm there, the best (and pretty much the only) graphical file manager available for X11 on Linux at that time. Xfm was originally written by Simon Marlow at Glasgow (he's now at Microsoft, still maintaining the Glasgow Haskell Compiler I guess) and improved by yours truly (xpm color icons, yeah! before it was xbm, so b&w only). Now before you laugh, this already had an application launcher and assignable shell actions per mime type. I have to admit, though, that Dolphin and Thunar look a bit nicer.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And now get off my lawn, I need to fix some bugs in moxfm. ;-)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Albert<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr. Albert Gr"af<br>Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany<br>Email: <a href="mailto:aggraef@gmail.com" target="_blank">aggraef@gmail.com</a><br>WWW: <a href="https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef</a></div></div>
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