drdoug wrote: [...] > CDE in Solaris almost has not changed since day one. > I cannot see why it is a mistake for Sun to remove it > from Solaris. If people from the community want to > support (or update) it then fine, but I don't see why > it is such a problem for Sun to finally stop making a > variant of the Model T Ford :)
It's hardly that bad. While CDE on Solaris has not picked up anywhere near all the features of the OpenGroup CDE 2.x base, it nevertheless has a lot of enhancements (and bug fixes) over CDE 1.0. And it's way faster and lighter than JDS; and CDE and Motif had inherited features to make them more friendly to folks coming from the older Open Look environment (like tear-off menus, .text_extras_menu - the latter perhaps peculiar to Sun's implementation?). Sure would be good if that petition (to TOG) to open CDE got somewhere. Very little Sun could do unilaterally... One update that would be great before Motif is totally ignored (give or take major bugs): it's still missing the XmPrint APIs (bugid 4475595, I think). I know Sun wants everyone to stop doing anything new in Motif, but I just don't think that's realistic (although given that attitude, I'm surprised they haven't already removed the CDE and Motif header files). > It all comes down to the resources Sun has to throw > at the desktop. I really don't think they > could effectively support more then JDS at this time. > This leaves a great opening for the community to step > up and deliver what Sun can not. SFW (and blastwave too I think) have KDE; blastwave has plenty of other alternatives as well (at least as far as window manager/desktop alternatives go; there are a smaller number of underlying toolkits, of course). Perhaps a _few_ of the most popular ought to get folded into SFW? This message posted from opensolaris.org
