Desktop environments No standard desktop environments
(though HP Vue morphed into CDE
and made a late appearance). Consequently,
window managers
played a much larger role than they
do today. Panel bars were rare??”
icons for minimized windows sat
directly on the desktop (or, sometimes,
in a separate icon box window).
Clients were usually started
through root-window menus or by
typing commands in an xterm.
Two widely used desktop environments
(KDE and Gnome) and a
lightweight desktop (Xfce) with
well-integrated root desktop,
menu, and panel-bar operation.
Toolkits and configuration Lots of Xt-based toolkits, including
Motif, OpenLook, and the Athena
Widgets. All of the toolkits could be
configured through resources.
Xt has almost completely fallen
into disuse; Qt and GTK+ have
captured developer mindshare.
Each provides their own configuration
systems. freedesktop.org has
coordinated shared standards for
desktop menu entries and icons.
Display hardware Entry-level desktop displays starting
at 0.45 megapixels (800 ?— 600) and
ranging up to 1.25 megapixels on
the high end, with a typical resolution
of 75 dots per inch (dpi). Common
color capabilities ranged from
monochrome to 256-color palettes,
with very few high-end systems
providing full-color capabilities.
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