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| CDE released as open source |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-06 00:00:00 |
| We have some very good news for those of us with a love for the Common Desktop Environment. I'm a huge fan of CDE - I've even dedicated an article to it - so I'm excited about this. CDE has been released as open source under the LGPL, and can be downloaded as of today for Debian and Ubuntu. Motif will follow later. |
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| RE: Comment by Licaon_Kter |
| By zizban on 2012-08-06 12:08:39 |
| It takes about 5 hours to build on the Pi. |
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| RE: Comment by marcp |
| By zizban on 2012-08-06 12:10:56 |
| Just because it's old doesn't mean you throw it away. There are many fans of CDE. The code is open, who knows what will happen? |
| - Score: 3 |
| Looking forward to community changes. |
| By dave51c on 2012-08-06 12:36:03 |
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Just registered on OSnews so I can comment on this good news! I've used CDE and found it very usable on my UNIX boxes (Solaris) in the past. I'm looking forward to seeing a few modern additions to CDE. My main wish is simply the implementation of anti-aliased fonts and a bit of cosmetic tweaking - but please, not to the extent of most modern DEs. |
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| I dislike CDE |
| By Treza on 2012-08-06 12:47:57 |
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I preferred OpenLook on Sun workstations :-( before it was replaced by CDE and Motif. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by marcp |
| By ThomasFuhringer on 2012-08-06 12:51:07 |
| This begs the question: What then are the good ideas in the specific case of CDE? |
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| RE: Nice but |
| By CapEnt on 2012-08-06 12:59:36 |
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Yes, if you can get OpenMotif to run on Weyland first. And it will probably do so in a near future, since this toolkit is opensource, it is relatively simple (against GTK or QT) and has a quite active community. |
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| RE: Looking forward to community changes. |
| By zizban on 2012-08-06 13:09:40 |
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There is experimental support for XFT: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdeskto... |
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| Comment by drcouzelis |
| By drcouzelis on 2012-08-06 13:37:19 |
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This is great news! I think CDE is a fabulous interface. Thom, I quote that article you wrote to my coworkers all the time. I love saying "CDE is one of the best user interfaces ever made" and seeing the reaction on their faces. ;) I wonder if the OpenCDE project will continue their work. EDIT: ...and then I read the comments above. ^_^ Edited 2012-08-06 13:41 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Comment by marcp |
| By kaiwai on 2012-08-06 13:43:30 |
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> Just because it's old doesn't mean it doesn't have good ideas. You reference Mac OS 8/9 - for me, that interface, Platinum, is miles and miles ahead of whatever UI disaster Apple is using now. Platinum was designed with usability in mind, it was consistent and logical. Mac OS X, on the other hand, is Microsoft BOB with garish skeuomorphic crap and incredibly inconsistent. Old != bad. Platinum > Aqua. They pretty much all suck these days - for me Mac OS X is the best of the worst and that isn't saying much for any of them to be quite frank. Having used IRIX owns desktop along with CDE on Solaris I would sooner the effort go into reviving and adding functionality to CDE than what seems to be the wasted effort by the two major desktops hauling along the monstrous memory hogging crap they call 'features' or stripping out preferences for the sake of 'ease of use' aka GNOME. What would I like to see? 1) CDE based configuration tools - networking configuration tools, video card settings etc. 2) Getting the major software titles like Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and so on to use OpenMotif - get some consistency. 3) Porting it to Wayland but ideally I'd like to see something better than Wayland so that other operating systems aren't left out in the cold - yes, I am a FreeBSD fan. 4) Niceties of modern desktops such as anti-aliased fonts etc. |
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| RE[2]: Looking forward to community changes. |
| By dave51c on 2012-08-06 13:43:45 |
| Great! Thank you for the link. |
| - Score: 1 |
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