A screenshot of the your CDE desktop would inspire some :) -S
Karsten Hashimoto wrote: > I honestly tell you, I do not miss anything while I am using CDE on Solaris. > > This might sound strange to most people, but I have a very well designed CDE > environment for my purposes. Everything looks clean and neat and technical. I > am using antialiased fonts, my own high color scheme, my own high color icon > set which replaces most of the ugly old ones. CDE is as colorful as you want > it, and you get non-CDE programs to look all well integrated by defining > appropriate Xdefaults. Though, it is a little work to get it there. I do not > know why standards created on Unix were always shipped looking as ugly as > possible and why nobody ever seemed to do something about it (maybe except > some mad people like me). > > I fell back to CDE after many annoying years with Gnome. > CDE is very fast (compared to Gnome), very stable, and complete: > > There is a realplayer for multimedia (which is still the best player around, > none of those Gnome or Java players on Solaris can compete with the perfect > clear sound of the Helix engine up to now, at least on my boxes) and a > flashplayer to integrate into firefox, there are command line tools for CD > ripping and CD burning (which could be easily wrapped into a small Tcl/Tk > program, for GUI integration). Well, there is firefox, thunderbird, NetBeans, > Emacs, professional CAD programs and so on. Clearly it is still the #1 Unix > desktop for seriously working people. > > Everything that comes with Gnome is running slow and it crashes and wants you > to fill bug reports. After changing some design elements, logging into a > gnome-session next time will most probably freeze. And Gnome has an unsafe > design by it's core design. No, I do not want all my applications to be able > to talk to each other and over a network. Who guarantees there isn't a key > logger in one of these ? > > No, friends. Gnome is not better than KDE, which is not better than Windows. > > I urgently ask this community to convince Sun ***not*** to stop shipping CDE. > > Guys, you might just leave it in there as it is, without any support (not > needed -- it is working). There are (secretly) hundreds of thousands of > people who have other things to care about than trying out 10 different media > players, browsers, mail clients, IDEs for Gnome, which are mostly simply not > working at all. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sivakumar.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 193 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090910/5c92261e/attachment.vcf>
