On May 22, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> (There was also some concern that it would just be a >> "dump it out and let it >> rot" open sourcing without a community to sustain >> it long-term, which we >> don't see much benefit in.) > > I think "Open"Motif is doing ok, so if some independent developers > here > and elsewhere were to get behind it, I think an Open CDE would do > okay. > Certainly there are a few quirks some of us would like to fix, as well > as a few enhancements that might be of broad interest. CDE is > presently a good deal more lightweight (or at least feels faster) > than GNOME, so I would hope people wouldn't just want to make it > into another overblown Windows clone. Which is not to say that GNOME > or KDE don't serve some folks well. So hopefully it would be more > in the > order of maintenance plus a few quirk-if-not-quite-bug fixes (have > icon > positions be remembered across dtwm restart, for example), small > enhancements (alternate buffer for dtterm; maybe rationalize some of > the more obscure default translations), and documenting some of the > internals (e.g. for communication between dtstyle and dtwm and/or > dtsession) > that may well have to remain more or less stable anyway for over- > the-wire > compatibility between versions. Dtmail could also use some work > (multiple > mail account support, more IMAP authentication techniques, and if > there's > an HTML widget that can play nicely with Motif, maybe better > multipart/alternative support than just treating everything other than > a basic text body as an attachment; but lots of care not to execute > anything > or access remote URLs without permission). One day, when there's > also real > multi-axis (horizontal as well as vertical) scroll-wheel support, > that should be > added too. Mostly nothing huge, would still look very retro to a > lot of folks, but > would be enough more predictable in its behavior and do just enough > more to > extend its useful life quite a bit.
Just a question to the Sun people who read this thread. Would it be possible for people outside of Sun Inc. to do the work required to get CDE opensourced ??? Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The axioms of wisdom: 1. You can't outstubborn a cat 2. You can't conquer the universe without the knowledge of FORTRAN 3. In the Unix realm, 10% of work fixes 90% of the problems
