Moin,
There is one system left I'm checking out the build for - Linux From
Scratch. I'm building it right now (the system. Not CDE yet).
I have ten days of vacation coming up, I was thinking about what to do.
I'm completely useless at sitting around idly for more than two days. So I
was thinking about some ideas:
1) A CDE-based Live-CD
2) researching integration of some modern technologies (like automount of
devices, udev, sound systems)
3) "modernizing" some of the dt apps (mail, text editor, dtlogin)
4) code cleanup (warnings)
What would be the preferred option from the team point of view? This also
brings up another question. What is the long-term goal? Do we try to keep
CDE running as it is or are there plans to actively develop it into a next
generation? For instance, I would love to see some more applications
developed (like a really good ftp client, image viewer, perhaps adding some
HTML support to the mail client (either via XmHTML or maybe even webkit).
All based on Motif of course. It has all a UI needs. It may look a bit
dated, but I love it, much more than all the new-fangled stuff that blinks,
beeps and dances, but gobbles up resources.
One thing I noticed on my old Compaq nx8220, running NetBSD: CDE makes
other DE's that were deliberately designed to be lightweight (LXDE, LXQT)
look positively bloated and sluggish. It could really be an alternative on
low-end systems.
Cheers,
Hippo
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