Fedora Core 6 – Desktop Features A little walk through the User Interfaces Fabian Affolter fabian.affolter@fedoraproject.org 07.12.2006
Overview / Agenda Intro History Desktop Environment Systems Next generation (Plan A: demo Plan B: screenshots) End
Before the graphics came...
History 1984 Apple announced the first GUI for personal computer (Macintosh) Nov 1985 first Mircosoft Windows version for i386 computer Atari released the first version of their Atari OS in 1985
First Graphical User Interface
Graphical User Interfaces in the 80s
Graphical User Interfaces in the 80s
The development between 1985 and today more colors smoother designs more comfortable intuitional using more features and gimmicks
every with a unique “desktop philosophy“ Today – 20 years later there are 3 major Operating Systems Microsoft Windows Linux Mac OS X every with a unique “desktop philosophy“
Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows Go to a room (M12, E65) with computer systems. Choose after startup „Microsoft Windows XP“ and take a look... :-P
Linux - Gnome
Linux - KDE
Linux - KDE
Next generation desktop Fedora Core and Aiglx bring it already today (Accelerated Indirect OpenGL Extension to the X Window System) faster changing of the running applications more overview more work speed simple using of the features
Short feature-overview cube (changing between virtual desktops) movie-strip real transparency downsizing of open windows and a lot of not very useful things rain woobly windows minimize / resize effects
Cube
Movie-strip I
Movie-strip II
Downsizing
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista
The most powerful interface
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