>  I would love to hear what plans there are on this aspect. Frankly I don't 
> know. My primary motivation is sentimental - I did use CDE as my primary work 
> environment since ca. 1994till ca. 1998 on AIX. I just like the blinking LED 
> on the front panel, designof the dtgreet login screen and the WaterDrops.pm 
> backdrop.Is there anything that CDE may bring to the world?One futuristc 
> example:Everyone seems to depend those days on Microsoft Active Syncto 
> synchronize their calendars and rpc.cmsd provides somealternative (of course 
> it's *way* different and not verypractical today). I remember exchanging 
> calendar eventsbetween AIX users and machines in the past. Maybe withIPv6, 
> ToolTalk and rpc.cmsd and other services we couldhave a peer-to-peer desktop 
> environment that does not needto rely on "cloud" stuff like dropbox to 
> exchange things.Just a dream :)//Marcin

>From the pre-release discussions I believe the idea was to get everything 
>stable and working and in that regard there are still things to do: calendar, 
>dtmail (ugh) and dtinfo, to name to the big three. As for the docs not 
>building, I believe we have (had?) someone trying to convert them using an old 
>Red Hat release. I don't know the status of that.

I do have the docs in question in rough html and I can rewrite them from 
scratch. I'd rather not since it'd be non-trivial but if it needs to be done, I 
can do it.

After everything is solid and working then I'd think a discussion about the 
future would be warranted.


 
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