On 28/04/2016 20:09, Danilo Schöneberg wrote: > Moin, > > There is one system left I'm checking out the build for - Linux From > Scratch. I'm building it right now (the system. Not CDE yet). > > I have ten days of vacation coming up, I was thinking about what to do. > I'm completely useless at sitting around idly for more than two days. So > I was thinking about some ideas: > > 1) A CDE-based Live-CD There was a Debian based Linux distribution called CDebian. I am unsure whether it has kept current with CDE. There is a github page at https://github.com/andarazoroflove/CDE-Projects
> 2) researching integration of some modern technologies (like automount > of devices, udev, sound systems) It is better to leave out sound systems. On Linux alone, one would have to support ALSA, OSS, Jackd and PulseAudio. > 3) "modernizing" some of the dt apps (mail, text editor, dtlogin) > 4) code cleanup (warnings) > > What would be the preferred option from the team point of view? This > also brings up another question. What is the long-term goal? Do we try > to keep CDE running as it is or are there plans to actively develop it > into a next generation? For instance, I would love to see some more > applications developed (like a really good ftp client, image viewer, > perhaps adding some HTML support to the mail client (either via XmHTML > or maybe even webkit). There was a LGPL licensed ftp client called AxyFTP using Motif and DtWidget library http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/FTP/axyftp-0.5.1/ There has been some messages in that mailing list about the Ida Motif image viewer and its integration into CDE. All based on Motif of course. It has all a UI > needs. It may look a bit dated, but I love it, much more than all the > new-fangled stuff that blinks, beeps and dances, but gobbles up resources. > > One thing I noticed on my old Compaq nx8220, running NetBSD: CDE makes > other DE's that were deliberately designed to be lightweight (LXDE, > LXQT) look positively bloated and sluggish. It could really be an > alternative on low-end systems. There are some comparison of RAM usage of the different DEs (on Linux). https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/tag/opencde/ LXDE and Razor-Qt use 10 to 40 MB more than CDE. That could contribute to their slowness on an old machine. > > Cheers, > Hippo > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager > Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of > your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and > reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z > > > > _______________________________________________ > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
