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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: Appreciation for CDE, OpenVMS |
| By Doc Pain on 2012-08-06 20:14:01 |
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> Does this mean I'll use it now? No -- XFCE, which has a lot more mindshare, does the job for me, and there are many GTK apps I would miss (e.g., Firefox). Years ago, I had some customers insisting on having their well-known CDE environment "somehow" on their new Linux and BSD workstations. I ended up installing XFCE 3 for them, and with some tweaking (especially colors and some menu editing), I was told that that was exactly what they've looked for. The system was later on changed by replacing lots of workstations with thin clients (using X11 networking sessions). That solution was "exactly like" what they knew from their former Solaris environment, even though they did use quite different programs (leaving XFCE to serve as window manager and program launcher). Sadly, this solution seems to be impossible now as XFCE 3 isn't supported anymure (due to the death of Gtk 1), and Xfce 4 (using Gtk 2) is much more "too different". I still have a 300 MHz system running BSD with XFCE 3, office programs and multimedia stuff. Unbreakable. :-) |
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| RE[3]: How about apps? |
| By moondevil on 2012-08-06 20:28:21 |
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What?! Motif is older than Windows. |
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| RE[4]: How about apps? |
| By tylerdurden on 2012-08-06 21:06:32 |
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Nope, Presentation Manager predates Motif by a few years. Motif was developed as a partnership between several vendors (HP and Digital mainly) and Microsoft, the goal was to have a consistent look and feel between Windows/OS2 and Unix machines. At least that was the "theory," the end result was a dreadful mess of a toolkit. I think it is ironic to see people praising Motif/CDE, given how much it kinda stunk during its heyday. Edited 2012-08-06 21:07 UTC |
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| RE: Colorful CDE |
| By judgen on 2012-08-06 21:17:37 |
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If you like the colours, there is a GTK3 theme now out for integration with HP-UX http://gnome-look.org/content/sh... Edit: It also includes gtk2 theme. Edited 2012-08-06 21:20 UTC |
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| RE[3]: How about apps? |
| By zizban on 2012-08-06 21:38:56 |
| Motif will be on sourced in a few months. |
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| RE[4]: Comment by marcp |
| By kaiwai on 2012-08-06 22:43:30 |
| No, we already have a wheel - it's called CDE but the children are hell bent on going their separate ways re-inventing wheel with all the faults of the original design. |
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| All you need is love... ♪♫♩ |
| By AnXa on 2012-08-06 23:07:39 |
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I love CDE! ♪♫♩ Edited 2012-08-06 23:08 UTC |
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| finally |
| By carolinason on 2012-08-07 00:25:49 |
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i've been waiting on this for years. i use to mock up xfce to look like it on linux, but only was able to use actual cde on solaris. the article says you can download it for ubuntu and debian, but i can only find the source. |
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| RE: finally |
| By zizban on 2012-08-07 00:26:38 |
| Its not great wording. What it means is that the code compiles and runs on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu. |
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| RE[2]: Very cool. |
| By UltraZelda64 on 2012-08-07 00:38:40 |
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Whoops, I get Debian's weird release names mixed up all the time. That's what I actually meant. I swear, I should just refer to them by version number... it's a lot harder to mix up. Doesn't help that with Debian's long release cycles, it's not uncommon to run across news items on two or three different versions of the distro (stable, oldstable, testing), and people usually use the codenames instead of version numbers. |
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