[rescue] CDE

Brian Wheeler bdwheele at indiana.edu
Tue Aug 7 12:39:42 CDT 2012


Open Look would be interesting to revive as well.    Heck, if the oval 
buttons had a glassy appearance, it would look positively modern :)




On 08/07/2012 01:34 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
> I'll second 4dwm. If they open sourced that I would switch to it
> immediately- its a fantastic window manager.
>
> CDE is just fun- don't know if I will ever use it, but I hope this sets
> a precedent for other companies to follow...
>
> Sent from my MicroVAX II
> From: Carl R. Friend
> Sent: 8/7/2012 4:24
> To: The Rescue List
> Subject: Re: [rescue] CDE
>      On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, leaknoil wrote:
>
>> Insanely ugly as well.
>      That very nearly sent coffee onto my monitor and keyboard!
>
>      I'll use CDE if there's nothing better (read, "most anything
> else") available (I'm an fvwm/twm bigot) or it's historically
> appropriate.  Getting fvwm to build on an Intergraph Clipper
> during the mid-/late- 90s was a trick.
>
>      I'll be very happy if somebody manages to get 4dwm released
> under a GPL license -- that's a nice window-manager!
>
>      Cheers.
>
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