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
