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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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| Looks interessting |
| By Ninjawidget on 2012-08-06 13:48:34 |
| I'm learning C/C++ at the moment, so I'm looking for something to get my teeth into, this looks like the project for me. Won't promise anything at all. |
 - Score: 1 |
| RE: Appreciation for CDE, OpenVMS |
| By FunkyELF on 2012-08-06 14:47:17 |
| Pretty sure you'd still be able to run GTK+ applications, just like you can run KDE applications from Gnome or XFce |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: I dislike CDE |
| By bnolsen on 2012-08-06 14:48:37 |
| I was in the same boat. I was very used to running olvwm and then sun switched over to CDE. It was a bear trying to configure CDE to act more like openlook. Even worse was all space wasted on the desktop FOR the desktop when I cared first and foremost about maximizing my code windows (which I did with openlook). |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: Appreciation for CDE, OpenVMS |
| By Hypnos on 2012-08-06 14:58:22 |
| Perhaps, but what would I gain then by using CDE, in exchange for the visual and configuration inconsistency? |
| - Score: 3 |
| Loved CDE |
| By jefro on 2012-08-06 15:33:16 |
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Never thought such a high profile commercial product could ever get open sourced. I'd like to see a distro with that option soon. It will save me from buying Exceed too. Darn metro fonts are hard to get on most linux. Edited 2012-08-06 15:37 UTC |
| - Score: 1 |
| Comment by zizban |
| By zizban on 2012-08-06 15:40:32 |
| A FreeBSD port is in progress. Its our biggest request by far. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: Nice, but not very exciting |
| By quackalist on 2012-08-06 16:45:23 |
| Didn't think it ugly at all, not saying it couldn't have been improved but at the time I wished it worked on windows as well. Not sure I wouldn't now. |
| - Score: 1 |
| Fond memories |
| By Tuishimi on 2012-08-06 17:07:20 |
| I have very fond memories of motif and CDE on my uVAXes... |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: How about apps? |
| By tylerdurden on 2012-08-06 18:20:50 |
| It makes somewhat sense, Motif was supposed to mimic Windows' look/feel, I guess they wanted the behavior to be similar down to the API level... |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Fond memories |
| By Bill Shooter of Bul on 2012-08-06 18:24:22 |
| Motif is the key, IMHO. It was the most common tool kit that people used on UNIX gui apps. I'm sure some will benefit having it available for free. Lesstif almost always worked but there were a couple issues. If nothing else, it would make updating those older apps easier. |
| - Score: 3 |
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