Mezzo is the desktop environment created by Jason Spisak. Added to Symphony OS, it follows Jason Spisak's Laws of Interface Design and poses a new way of presenting data to the user. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 357 KB) This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Download high resolution version (1024x768, 357 KB) This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... In graphical computing, a desktop environment (DE) offers a complete graphical user interface (GUI) solution to operate a computer. ... Symphony OS, or Symphony Linux, is a Knoppix-based (soon to be componentized Linux) LiveCD Linux distribution created by Ryan Quinn and Jason Spisak. ...
Mezzo disposes of standard concepts like "The desktop is a folder" and nested menu systems and instead presents all needed information directly to the user via the main desktop and four desk targets for tasks and files related to System, Programs, Files, and Trash. This tries to simplify the desktop.
The name is derived from the desktop metaphor used by most of these interfaces.
The desktopenvironments for the popular operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X are, in their intended use, relatively static.
Well-known desktopenvironments examples (specially for Unices), include GNOME, KDE, CDE and Xfce; however, a number of other desktopenvironments also exist, including (but are not limited to): EDE, UDE, Mezzo, ROX Desktop, GEM, PerlTop, XPde, Xito, IRIX Interactive Desktop and arm0nia.
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