[rescue] CDE

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

CDE sucked , has always sucked.  I remember when a company I was working
for in 1997 or 1998 licensed the source code - the programmers who looked
over the codebase said it was a tangled, spaghetti like mess, full of
half-working ideas and loaded with security holes.

That it is now open source will probably not change anything, aside from
letting people with legacy CDE needs be happy they can fix the bugs
themselves :-)

Cheers, Patrick

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Brian Wheeler <bdwheele at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Open Look would be interesting to revive as well.    Heck, if the oval
> buttons had a glassy appearance, it would look positively modern :)
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> On 08/07/2012 01:34 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
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>> I'll second 4dwm. If they open sourced that I would switch to it
>> immediately- its a fantastic window manager.
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>> 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...
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>> 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:
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>>  Insanely ugly as well.
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>>      That very nearly sent coffee onto my monitor and keyboard!
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>>      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.
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>>      I'll be very happy if somebody manages to get 4dwm released
>> under a GPL license -- that's a nice window-manager!
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>>      Cheers.
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