Minor XFce history lesson (was: Re: panel iconify buttons)

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Botsie,

CDE has two buttons, one to close the panel (on the left), another one
to iconify it (on the right side), just like xfce3

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 04:57, Biju Chacko wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2002 19:34:56 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> 
> > 	That was the basic idea that spawned XFce.  Olivier wanted a
> > CDE'like GUI and, initially, wrote a panel that ran on top of fvwm. 
> > This was back when XFce was built from XForms (which is where the name
> > came from).
> > 
> > 	Some of us COB's like XFce because it can be very CDE looking
> > and feeling yet is not weighed down by the bloat and junk that CDE
> > has. I, personally, think that XFce is so much more than CDE ever was
> > (yet, strangely enough, everything that CDE wanted to be).  I've only
> > seen very few things that CDE does than XFce doesn't and most of those
> > are cosmetic.
> 
> But Joe, you didn't tell us whether CDE has the iconify buttons! BTW,
> any links to CDE screenshots ?
> 
> -- b
> 
> 
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