Development Of A Graphical User Interface Computer Science

In this report on the development of a graphical user interface desktop in the Linux operating system it will consists of the development of Gui, the history of Gui, Linux, X window system, KDE, GNOME and Android in Linux. It will look in to how the system was created, who created and what year it was created it. It will also look at the different way the system has contributed to the development of GUI. It will talk about two different desktop environments.

GUI: Graphical User Interface is a user interface that lets the user to co-operate with the devices. It shows images rather than text commands which are easier for the user to use. The GUI is used in most electric devices out today from a computer, I-pod, I-phones, and MP3 players and in some household equipment. The GUI represents the information and actions throughout graphical icons.

History of the GUI: The development of GUI has been going on for the past 50 odd years. A number of malefactors have created their own windows system constructed on independent code. They based the code mostly on WIMP which is window, icon, menu and pointing devices. In 1979 Steve Jobs, Jeff Raskin and the teams of Apple Lisa and Macintosh at Apple computer. They created one of the first computers to use a desktop metaphor and a mouse graphical user interface. In 1984 the first multi-panel GUI was released by Macintosh. It had files on the screen that looked like pieces of paper and folder directions that were file folders. It also had desk accessories which included a calculator, alarm clock and a notepad. It also had a trash bin where files could be drag and drop if they needed to be deleted. Then in 1986 the Apple llgs was released. It was more advanced than the Macintosh it had more colour and more options.

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