> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > There is no schedule yet - at the moment individual > pieces are starting > > to be removed (sdtimage is out already, > sdtaudiocontrol will probably > > come out around the time OSS goes in), but there's > still some dependencies > > on other pieces that need to be cleared up first > (moving the default login > > from dtlogin to gdm, waiting for the new installer > to remove the dependency > > of the current installer on dtwm & dtterm, etc.). > > And, hopefully, making GNOME configurable enough so > that it can be made to > be CDE-user friendly for those of us who think that > (among other things) the > concept of a "Launch" button is stupid (compared to > CDE's right click on the > desktop approach).
I still remember that some conveniences from Open Look (pinnable menus -> tear-off menus, .text_extras_menu for editor and email) found their way into CDE. Point being, some people aren't sheep - they will be annoyed at being told that the loss of useful and familiar functionality is an update or improvement. CDE is probably a PR guy's nightmare - it's ugly and boring. But it works, well. I really hope that talk of TOG opening CDE comes to something before Sun pulls the plug on CDE. I'd like to see what CDE would look like with a bunch of updates, worked over to work with Motif 2.3 (which supports anti-aliasing); maybe even with a bit of pointless eye candy, just to point out to the truly shallow (majority, unfortunately) that something doesn't have to be new to be interesting. This message posted from opensolaris.org
