Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Antonis Tsolomitis
On 03/08/2016 06:35 μμ, Swift Griggs wrote: >> But to substantially increase the user base, I think a move away from >> "here's a bunch of source code and some arcane instructions" should be >> included on the to-do list. > I totally agree. I'm in the same boat. I can do it with no sweat, but to >

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > I am no expert with DtMail, but it seems to use ToolTalk to some extent. > Use can issue low-level ToolTalk calls from the dtksh as well: I'm ignorant. I read the docs just now and it looks like one could create a ttdt communications endpoint. Then the

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > Did you try dtksh for some scripting? > > I actually didn't know it existed as a scripting API. I'm looking again at > programs/dtksh/examples to get an idea of it's capabilities. It does lots > of cool stuf

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > Did you try dtksh for some scripting? I actually didn't know it existed as a scripting API. I'm looking again at programs/dtksh/examples to get an idea of it's capabilities. It does lots of cool stuff, pipes, workspace manager interactions, drawing, re

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: > > Creation and assignment of types and actions could probably be > > streamlined, or at least scripted. > > Yes! I love the idea of finding an easy way to add scripting or plugin > APIs that allow for doing things that are painful in C, but easy in shel

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Myles Mc Manus wrote: > As someone who uses CDE everyday, I really appreciate all the work that > has been done to fix bugs and make the whole thing more stable. Some > really outstanding work has been done, and I am very grateful for it. It really surprised me to see both Mo

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Matthew R. Trower wrote: > I care. I'd love to see some new features added to CDE - if nothing > else, to bring it up to speed with the rest of the world. Cool! At least there are a few of us left. At my job, I support old operating systems (Tru64, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and very

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-02 Thread Christopher Turkel
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:11 PM Myles Mc Manus wrote: > Hi Guys, > > As someone who uses CDE everyday, I really appreciate all the work that > has been done to fix bugs and make the whole thing more stable. Some really > outstanding work has been done, and I am very grateful for it. > > If the foc

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-02 Thread Myles Mc Manus
Hi Guys, As someone who uses CDE everyday, I really appreciate all the work that has been done to fix bugs and make the whole thing more stable. Some really outstanding work has been done, and I am very grateful for it. If the focus is going to move on from cleaning up the code that was inherited

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-02 Thread Matthew R. Trower
Hello Swift, I care. I'd love to see some new features added to CDE - if nothing else, to bring it up to speed with the rest of the world. For example, I think we really need proper support for multi-head setups, and I'd love to see dtMail fully support IMAP. DtLogin should (probably?) support sys

[cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-02 Thread Swift Griggs
Hello Folks, I'm getting started with Motif coding. I've managed to get CDE compiled on NetBSD 7 (what fun!) and I'm still at the 2nd "hello world" pushbutton tutorial stage with my own coding. I'm passable with C, but new to Motif. I'm currently reading "MOTIF Programming" by Marshall Brain.