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by myrandomcomment 521 days ago
I want the NextStep style menus and shelf back. The dock sucks. :)
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I genuinely never understood why nobody else implemented a version of the shelf from NextStep. It was such a fantastic UI innovation. In many ways NextStep was the pinnacle of desktop UI/UX design.
GNU/Linux and BSD had and still have WindowMaker and the whole Cocoa/OpenStep implementation with GNUStep.
I used WindowMaker for years and while it was pretty good, it was never as good as NextStep. GNUStep I could never really get to work consistently, it always felt more like an interesting proof of concept than a stable desktop environment.
Check NextSpace
Thanks! Will do.
I don’t even know what it does today I a multi monitor world. Not a good launcher, not a window switcher.