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 sometime > this month. > > Qt brings quite a lot of capabilities to the table in terms of font > and rendering support, OpenGL support, and a whole slew of other > capabilities that Motif simply does not handle. > > Later today, I will begin committing the first patches - the first is > to convert to qmake, rather than imake for building. Once those > pieces are in place, we can begin the full conversion in earnest. > > When the conversion is complete, CDE will be renamed to QCDE, in line > with it's Qt based roots. > > I hope I can count on your support as we usher CDE (QCDE) into a new > era.
I hope this is an April Fools' joke...or at least a fork. (If so, it's a darn good one!) -- + 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
