> 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.
Ok, a 1975 Sky blue Volvo 240 station wagon is probably a better match. Ugly but sort of functional :) > 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?). > Having been an user of Open Look, CDE was a welcome change/improvement, though I used twm before CDE, as CDE at the time was very heavy. How times have changed... Though I would have to say the resource usage gap narrows between CDE and Gnome as soon as you start using apps like firefox and thunderbird. I find the inconsistant look and feel of the Solaris desktop in the past has made Solaris look ugly. If you started an app from the standard JDS menu, you could get a JDS looking app, or a CDE looking app, or a Java looking app. Thankfully with the latest opensolaris JDS, everything by default is pure JDS (Of course you can add java and CDE apps to the menu). Doug This message posted from opensolaris.org
