Subj : Re: Tastes Like Windows
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Fri Nov 29 2019 01:29:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> 
> -=> KY MOFFET wrote to ALL <=-
>   KM> https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/iscreenshots.html
>   KM> Looks like Windows, eh?
>   KM> It's not. It's q4os linux with the Trinity desktop, morphed into
>   KM> every sort of pseudo-Windows.
>   KM> https://q4os.org/
> 
> If the desktop displays are copyrighted, trademarked, or under whatever
> protection I think there might be a cease and desist in the near future!

Nope, you can't protect the look of a desktop. I vaguely recall that was 
settled when ...um, Lotus? threw a legal fit because some other company 
used an interface functionally identical to Lotus 1-2-3. Basically you 
can recreate anything like that, much as you can arrange the alphabet 
until you achieve the phone book -- so long as you don't copy the 
original itself.

> 
>   KM> ...Okay, not Win3.1, but that could be done too...
> 
> Umm, what about WFWG??!!

Haha, not so different...

> Personally I'm not so sure on Desktop images: with my usage I generally
> have them covered with multiple windows, though I do use them as a
> visual indentifier.

I want it restful to the eye, which usually means not too ugly. I like 
how Openbox names the virtual desktops as Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, 
so I stole that, and keep meaning to find each its own appropriate 
wallpaper.
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