Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Patches to some of the config tools

2012-08-09 Thread Brent Busby
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Robert Tomsick wrote: > My $0.02: part of the value of CDE is that we can produce a more > polished version of CDE for older systems (ones long since abandoned > by KDE/GNOME/etc. but still in use), so maybe we shouldn't set the bar > *too* high. Since I'm a non-developer,

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Patches to some of the config tools

2012-08-09 Thread Brent Busby
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Marc Balmer wrote: > Am 09.08.12 22:29, schrieb Brent Busby: >> support for TrueType fonts, etc... I'd even go for a replacement of use >> of RPC services with something less hazardous like DBus. > > Before it gets replaced, why not make it work fir

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New default font?

2012-09-27 Thread Brent Busby
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: > I would definitely say No! > > I believe that we should not only look on this from the technological > or license point of view. > Typography is an art. > > The proposed font, Roboto, is from the typography point of view a > terrible font. It is a

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Good news!

2014-04-01 Thread Brent Busby
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Jon Trulson wrote: > After consulting with Digia and ICS, I have decided that Motif is no > longer the proper toolkit for use in CDE. > > As a result, we will begin migrating from the use of Motif in CDE to > the Qt Framework, probably version 5.3, when it is released sometim

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] XView

2014-11-17 Thread Brent Busby
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, ch...@chriswareham.net wrote: > Apologies if this is a little too off topic, but I thought it might at > least be of interest to some list members. I'm currently working on a > 64 bit port of the XView libraries and clients > (http://xview.xenu.tk/cgi-bin/view). This is bas

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] GDE, the GNU Desktop Environment (Was: Re: OS X and Autotools)

2014-11-22 Thread Brent Busby
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Rob Tomsick wrote: > On Saturday, November 22, 2014 01:53:01 PM Edmond Orignac wrote: >> I believed the GNOME project (contrarily to KDE) fitted perfectly the >> aims of the GNU organization by being based on the non-proprietary >> toolkit GTK. Moreover, in order to improve

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] GDE, the GNU Desktop Environment (Was: Re: OS X and Autotools)

2014-11-22 Thread Brent Busby
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Pouar wrote: > On 11/22/2014 04:50 PM, Brent Busby wrote: >> Totally agree. I agree in spirit with the GPL, that software that is >> left completely free tends to end up becoming the basis of commercial >> projects that embrace, extend, and extinguish

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Full screen applications

2015-11-22 Thread Brent Busby
On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, alx wrote: > that might be because dtwm doesn't yet support freedesktop's extensions > to the ICCC, which add WM hints for full screen window states, neither > does MWM I suppose. And some apps tend to assume that their extended > hints get handled. I'm loath to suggest chang

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Some plans and some questions

2016-04-30 Thread Brent Busby
Edmond Orignac writes: > xmmixer was designed for use with OSS and is working at least on Linux > with ALSA and OSS emulation. Since it's a Motif program, it would seem to be the best choice if we're needing a mixer for CDE. I don't think it's absolutely necessary for CDE to have a mixer thoug

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] Use /var/spool instead of /usr/spool on linux

2016-06-07 Thread Brent Busby
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Giacomo Comes wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] Use /var/spool instead of /usr/spool on linux This would also make sense on FreeBSD or almost any modern Unix flavor. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a millio

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] CRS-9 Dragon Launch

2016-07-18 Thread Brent Busby
"Kolodziej, Jeffrey A. (WSC-452.0)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]" writes: > If you have not yet heard, the SpaceX launch this (Monday) morning > went well. There were no NCCDS issues. There was a one-second > drop out supposedly caused by Mutual Interference that Dave Glasscock > mentioned in the de-bri

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Status of AIX and HPUX ports, and thoughts about dtksh

2018-06-09 Thread Brent Busby
Jon Trulson writes: > On 06/09/2018 05:40 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: >> Also, requiring ksh to build is a bit of a fault point for many >> users, especially the ones on BSDs, how difficult would it be to >> remove the requirement for ksh during the build process, using sh >> instead,

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Modernization and re-tooling

2018-06-26 Thread Brent Busby
rent laptops, and a smart waffle iron with an LCD touchscreen, who would be very hard to teach not to do things like that because of worries that it might corrupt their mailbox. -- - Brent Busby ++ "Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy." - < Studio > ++

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Modernization and re-tooling

2018-06-26 Thread Brent Busby
I > couldn't read a lot of my emails because of it. Just tell them you're sending all their mail to spam folder until they stop sending you HTML. :) -- - Brent Busby ++ "Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy." - < Studio > ++ -- Linus

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Default font change

2021-02-06 Thread Brent Busby
Lev via cdesktopenv-devel writes: > I would like to gather feedback from everyone on the list on whether > we should switch the default font (a bitmap rendering of Lucida) to a > manually adjusted screen font designed to maximize legibility. > > I’ve attached before and after screenshots. On my L

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Why do we require ksh93 to compile CDE?

2021-03-26 Thread Brent Busby
Zeke Williams writes: > I already have ksh installed under /bin in my distro. I had to > download from github ksh93 because the sourceforge git didn't come > with it and the patch as part of compilation failed to apply to be > able to compile it and resulted with an error. Is there anything > man