There’s a meme out there about how looked like your first desktop, and how it looks right now (related to theme changes in the next Ubuntu release).
I don’t have a screenshot of my first desktop, but I have one shot from 2003:
If I recall correctly that was a KDE 3.1.1 running in a Debian Woody with lots of steroids (please notice the Mozilla 1.0.0, great browser back in the days!).
I’ve tried to reproduce that screenshot again with my Fedora 12 and Gnome 2.28.2 (and Chromium 5.0.382.0), and this is the result:
Not that different I guess, but I don’t know if it’s good or not. I’m looking forward to see if Gnome 3 is the answer to that question.
