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, I'm certainly not wanting to make any comments that are taken too seriously -- I haven't contributed any code or patches. But just to add my own two cents: I would agree with Robert on this, and also add that I think it would be a shame if CDE were so "modernized" that it didn't act like CDE anymore. I'm all for the idea of fixing it's terrible 90's coding practices, security holes, lack of support for TrueType fonts, etc... I'd even go for a replacement of use of RPC services with something less hazardous like DBus. But on the desktop, it should still be CDE...otherwise...what's the point? It should also stay Motif based, because for people wanting to run a traditional UNIX desktop, that also is part of the point of CDE. The only reason I felt the need to say all of this is because I've observed that on Linux, unfortunately, all roads lead to GNOME. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
