1. Fedora Core 6 – Desktop Features
A little walk through the User Interfaces
Fabian Affolter

2. Overview / Agenda Intro History Desktop Environment Systems
Next generation (Plan A: demo Plan B: screenshots)
End

3. Before the graphics came...

4. 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

5. First Graphical User Interface

6. Graphical User Interfaces in the 80s

7. Graphical User Interfaces in the 80s

8. The development between 1985 and today
more colors
smoother designs
more comfortable
intuitional using
more features and gimmicks

9. 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“

10. Mac OS X

11. Microsoft Windows Go to a room (M12, E65) with computer systems.
Choose after startup „Microsoft Windows XP“
and take a look... :-P

12. Linux - Gnome

13. Linux - KDE

14. Linux - KDE

15. 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

16. 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

17. Cube

18. Movie-strip I

19. Movie-strip II

20. Downsizing

21. Microsoft Windows Vista

22. Microsoft Windows Vista

23. The most powerful interface

24. Questions ? Helpful suggestions ?
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