@bkuhn I remember exactly the revolution when the Kool Desktop Environment #KDE was announced by #MatthiasEttrich and shortly after the GNU Network Object Model Environment #GNOME by @Migueldeicaza and @federicomena . KDE seemed to be far ahead in the beginning. Most distributions moved from #fvwm2 (?) to KDE shortly after. The object-oriented approach of Gnome was very intriguing, inspired by #BeOS and #NeXT, but I don't know how much is left of that idea.

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