Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Matthew R. Trower wrote: > I care. I'd love to see some new features added to CDE - if nothing > else, to bring it up to speed with the rest of the world. Cool! At least there are a few of us left. At my job, I support old operating systems (Tru64, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and very

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Myles Mc Manus wrote: > As someone who uses CDE everyday, I really appreciate all the work that > has been done to fix bugs and make the whole thing more stable. Some > really outstanding work has been done, and I am very grateful for it. It really surprised me to see both Mo

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: > > Creation and assignment of types and actions could probably be > > streamlined, or at least scripted. > > Yes! I love the idea of finding an easy way to add scripting or plugin > APIs that allow for doing things that are painful in C, but easy in shel

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > Did you try dtksh for some scripting? I actually didn't know it existed as a scripting API. I'm looking again at programs/dtksh/examples to get an idea of it's capabilities. It does lots of cool stuff, pipes, workspace manager interactions, drawing, re

[cdesktopenv-devel] Integration of patches from pkgsrc/wip for NetBSD

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
Do these patches look familiar? patch-lib_DtHelp_HelpXlate.c patch-programs_dtpdmd_manager.c patch-programs_dtlogin_dm.c patch-programs_dtprintinfo_libUI_MotifUI_Debug.c patch-programs_dtlogin_dm.h patch-programs_dtprintinfo_

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > Did you try dtksh for some scripting? > > I actually didn't know it existed as a scripting API. I'm looking again at > programs/dtksh/examples to get an idea of it's capabilities. It does lots > of cool stuf

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > I am no expert with DtMail, but it seems to use ToolTalk to some extent. > Use can issue low-level ToolTalk calls from the dtksh as well: I'm ignorant. I read the docs just now and it looks like one could create a ttdt communications endpoint. Then the

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] New to the list

2016-08-03 Thread Antonis Tsolomitis
On 03/08/2016 06:35 μμ, Swift Griggs wrote: >> But to substantially increase the user base, I think a move away from >> "here's a bunch of source code and some arcane instructions" should be >> included on the to-do list. > I totally agree. I'm in the same boat. I can do it with no sweat, but to >