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 first, and see if it can
> be usable?

Oh of course, I just meant if someone wants to, since there was some 
talk about that earlier.

>> 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.
>
> No more, my friend, since a few days...

Oh good.  Then we don't have to get to the next stage after that, where 
all desktops that have first turned into GNOME then turn into Android. 
:)

-- 
+ 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

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