On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:24:34PM +0200, Erwin Van de Velde wrote:
On Monday 06 August 2012 17:45:05 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sid Boyce
wrote: On 06/08/12 14:39, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Does anybody mean to package it?
If it's the CDE (Common Desktop Environment), the Sun cast-off, spend the effort elsewhere.
Seems to be correct.
It was an ugly appendage on Solaris.
The "native" desktop was called OpenWindows, which was later replaced by CDE, which to many people really felt like an "ugly appendage".
How about informing yourself before ranting?
So to me it looks like an informed (albeit opinionated) posting. You also fail to cite the Motif part.
CDE is the common UNIX desktop that has been created by AT&T, Sun, Xerox, HP, IBM, .... and that was omnipresent.
It is still the official POSIX GUI.
Sure, and CLNP is still the official OSI datagram protocol.
Unfortunately it is butt ugly :-)
In my days I had a lot of additional attributes for it, but IMO, CDE isn't
worth insulting any more ;->
Ciao
Jörg
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Joerg Mayer