[Lazarus] The future of desktop

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 02/12/13 20:55, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Kostas Michalopoulos schrieb:
>> Actually, Microsoft has nothing to do with GEM, it was made by
>> Digital Research.
> 
> Right, but it was the first desktop presented by Microsoft.
> 
>> Also technically GEM is/was very different from Windows (GEM relies
>> on interrupts and can run only a single program while Windows was
>> multitasking from the start,
> 
> I'm not sure what GEM has to do with multitasking.

That history has gone full-circle, and the NEW DESKTOP APPS (for Windows 8 Metro) are
predominantly full screen...

And the [GEM/DR/?] idea of menus on top of screen also makes a come back in Ubuntu...
and IIRC Gnome3.

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> 
> DoDi
> 
-L.