Hello everyone,

things seem not so simple. There's a lot broken with motif 2.5.2. First
things I've seen after restarting the desktop, the names of the
workspaces are gibberish. dthelp crashes instantly. This requires more
investigation for now. I think, I need to set up a test system for
that, because this update renders the desktop to a not fully working
state.

Btw. after applying the patch, it won't compile against motif 2.3.8
anymore, so please don't merge this to master yet.

Ayron

On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 21:23:23 +0000
Dark Ayron <[email protected]> wrote:

> I now updated to motif 2.5.2 and tried to recompile CDE, but it failed
> on two places. [DtMrm] DtMrm.c and [dtappbuilder] abuil_load.c
> The callback types are now with explicit parameters. The casts to the
> K&R-style implicit argument list (just giving no arguments) caused an
> incompatible pointer type error. I applied the following patch to fix
> this, but I think, this requires a bit more testing.
> 
> Maybe someone else using gentoo can test this too.
> 
> Ayron
> 
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:51:41 +0000
> Chase via cdesktopenv-devel <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > ICS appears to have completely abandoned motif development. A number
> > of contributors I've seen here have submitted patched to the ICS
> > motif in vain. Motifzone 404s, and the bug tracker is gone. Luckily
> > not all hope is lost. Someone has picked up motif development and
> > has made a number of releases (now currently all the way at 2.5.2),
> > you can find the project here: https://github.com/thentenaar/motif.
> > Gentoo currently packages this version, and if anyone here maintains
> > motif for their project, I would also suggest switching to this
> > version.
> > 
> > Thank you for your time,
> > -Chase  



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