[ale] Ancient desktop

[Jim Kinney]

Found the old slackware package entry.


https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-8.0/pasture/pasture-sources/tkdesk/tkdesk-1.1.lsm

Yeah. Good times. I think I ran this on a 486dx or maybe that slot 1
Pentium with the f00f bug.

On Tue, May 9, 2023, 7:31 AM Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm gonna look at the v 1.3 I found in their downloads. My testing of it
> was from '95-97 time frame. Many thanks!
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2023, 10:34 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> I was just installing slackware 4 for fun and there is a package called
>> tkdesk.tgz. Maybe is what you looking for.
>> Created by Christian Bolik.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 19:45 Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Skeumorphism FTW!
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:42 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking for the very ancient desktop my swiss cheese brain is
>>>> calling "tkdesktop". I recall it literally was a large desk that filled the
>>>> screen. Files were in the drawers and directories were file folders. The
>>>> phone was used to dial the modem. It was written in TCL/TK.
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