This is the fourth part of the journey time between the GUI that were! We will consider the years 1996 to 2000.
OS / 2 Warp 4 (released in 1996)
IBM released OS / 2 Warp 4 with considerable improvements as regards the workspace.
The icons were placed on the desktop, where you could create files and directories. He was introduced to the "Recycle Bin" to the deletion of files, although in this case the cancellation was immediate.
Mac OS System 8 (released in 1997)
This was the default GUI using "well" 256 colors. Mac OS 8 was one of the early adopters of isometric style icons, called pseudo-3D. The theme "Platinum Grey" was used by this version and became the trademark for future versions.
Windows 98 (released in 1998)
The style icon was similar to the previous version (Win 95), but the whole GUI uses 256 colors for rendering. The Eplorer changed almost completely and appeared for the first time the concept of active desktop.
KDE 1.0 (released in 1998)
Here is how the KDE development team described the project:
"KDE allows you to run a desktop environment for UNIX workstations over the network in a transparent manner.
KDE seeks to compensate for the lack of a desktop UNIX user friendly as Windows 95 or MacOS. It is completely free and open to anyone who wants to develop or modify its operation. "
BeOs 4.5 (released in 1999)
It was developed for personal computers, originally written by BE-IN in 1991 to run on BeBox hardware. It was developed to exploit the new technologies and hardware such as symmetric multiprocessing, Pervasive Multitheading, preemptive multitasking and a journaled file system known as 64-bit custom BFS. The GUI was built looking for a clean design and clear.
GNOME 1.0 (released in 1999)
It was mainly developed for Red Hat, later it was made for other distributions.
Sources
Guidebook for the continuous work on GUI design .
Nathan Toasty's graphical user interface gallery .
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This post was written by admin on May 14, 2009
Amiga OS 3.0 (released in 1992)
Workbench with 24bit graphics and Picasso96 cybergraphics by RTG.
Audio 16bit AHI by RTG
New file system, improvement of datatype
Amiga OS 3.1 (released in 1991)
Amiga OS 3.5 (released in 1999)
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/amigaos/amigaos35
AmigaOs3.9 was released in the 'year 2000, you might want to talk about it in the fifth part
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Hopefully there is room for the 4.0 and MorphOS!
http://www.morphos.de/screenshot_twozero.jpg
Are you sure that Gnome was originally developed for redhat?? I remember that the reasons for its birth were precisely the fact that KDE is supported on the QT that were not free at that time it became later (and this choice was obviously aimed not to lose interest in the community) ... and decided to rely on Gnome GTK +, however, really do not remember on which the first distribution was used. You may be right, then redhat was still widely seen as open.
Ah, we are talking about DE and WM X would also include a range of these previous precisely the duo KDE / Gnome .... Among the best known, there was first used fvwm (from which then created a version similar to the look of fvwm95 win95 hehe), the icewm and wmaker WindowMaker or .... between those used in the Linux + before the advent of KDE / Gnome ... they were used on other Unix other.
In fact, even long before it was necessary to remember your X-Window System 1984 by MIT ... even if its first commercial use in 1986 and is called beautiful was pure understatement hehe ... let's say that becomes known only from versions 8-10 on, the best known of course is the 11 of 1987 (in particular the 11R5 and XFree86 R6 was born in 1992 originally called X386 now replaced by X.org in Linux that the original project), hence the nickname X11.
If you need the whole story on the English wiki tells in detail:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System Origin_and_early_development