On 2015-07-24 20:55, James Powell wrote:
I got it built on Slackware once but it wasn't too stable from when I
last had tried it years ago with Solaris.
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From: Marlon Nunes
Sent: 7/24/2015 4:51 PM
To: dng@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager
On 2015-07-24 20:48, James Powell wrote:
> CDE is a classic UNIX desktop, but it has long been since viable
for
> modern usages.
>
> Xfce, in truth, was a modern replacement for it using Xforms since
> Motif was, at the time, under a different license. It bears the
same
> classic layout minus some differences.
>
> However, last I had heard CDE was still unstable with some
> operations.
I'm building it on NetBSD-Current to see how it goes....
I see it as 'The Opportunity' to put an END on gtk* stuffs.
>
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> From: Marlon Nunes
> Sent: 7/24/2015 4:31 PM
> To: dng@lists.dyne.org
> Subject: [DNG] A better default windows manager
>
> Guys what about a true UNIX and complete desktop environment to be
the
>
> 'default' desktop for devuan 2.0?
>
> here's what i'm talking about:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/ [1] [1]
> http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/What%20is%20CDE%3F/ [2]
[2]
>
> "CDE was designed with end users, software developers, and system
> administrators in mind. It gives end users a consistent,
> customizable,
> network-aware graphical user interface across workstations and PCs.
> CDE
> gives software developers a single set of graphical user interface
> (GUI)
> and desktop programming interfaces for all platforms that support
the
> X
> Window System,TM simplifying the task of creating and distributing
> cross-platform applications."
>
> "CDE includes session management, window and workspace management,
> graphical file and object management, transparent data interchange
> across platforms and applications, multi-user collaboration,
desktop
> productivity tools, a context-sensitive help system, an on-line
> documentation browser, network services, an application builder,
> industry-standard graphical user interface toolkits, and
> configuration
> and management utilities."
>
> The source code to the programs and libraries are released under
the
> GNU
> LGPL 2.0 or later.
> Motif is under the LGPL as well.
>
> Complete and Free. Just waiting for us to use and improving it.
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/docs/ [3] [3]
>
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> [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/ [1]
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/What%20is%20CDE%3F/
[2]
> [3] http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/docs/ [3]
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