[Trisquel-users] Re : CDE -- Common Desktop Environment

2016-05-18 Thread dguthrie
I personally prefer programs that are desktop environment-agnostic, like gPicView.

[Trisquel-users] Re : CDE -- Common Desktop Environment

2016-05-21 Thread dguthrie
Do you have any idea why CDE is not packaged for Debian yet? There is a package called cde but it is something else. So I suppose you could call it cde-desktop?

[Trisquel-users] Re : CDE -- Common Desktop Environment

2016-05-22 Thread dguthrie
Did you build it and then use make checkinstall? This supposedly produces a .deb archive. I will try.

[Trisquel-users] Re : CDE -- Common Desktop Environment

2016-05-22 Thread dguthrie
It seems to be made up of several separate programs so each would need to be packaged individually. Quick and dirty Debian packaging is actually reasonably simple. You make a file with information about the package, and you put the compiled files in folders corresponding to where they should

[Trisquel-users] Re : CDE -- Common Desktop Environment

2016-05-24 Thread calinou
> A computer interface must look like it's a computer, not a printed newspaper or a brochure. I disagree with this. There's a reason the industry is pushing for high-DPI monitors: pixelated fonts are just ugly and harder to read than crisp, anti-aliased fonts.

[Trisquel-users] Re : CDE -- Common Desktop Environment

2016-05-17 Thread mtlben
Wow, that's a blast from the past as far as I am concerned. Memories of my first internship in 1996 :)!