Common Desktop Environment 现已开源

The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time.

For support, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/

Features

• X11 Desktop Environment

License

GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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User Reviews

• I actually use CDE as my daily driver. It's a nice desktop system. Especially on modern hardware (really fast). The scripting system (Actions, ToolTalk etc) is quite advanced, I like it. The Mail application did not work for me, but it was easy to replace with another e-mail client. The action/scripting system allowed me to add some missing pieces, like a screenshot app. You can just drag the actions in the drawers, that's nice. I also like that the desktop is used for minimized applications. That really makes more sense than stuffing them in a dock or task bar.

• Very good spirit to maintain this desktop environment and it must be quite a huge work. It's not difficult to add apps to the apps manager but a bit difficult to link icons to them. An occasion to look at MWM and related projects (EMWM), Xresources and read man pages also. So it's really unix ! Well a bit of nostalgia and it made me rediscover old X tools like xclipboard.

• When I was young, I could not afford any commercial UNIX workstation running CDE. I used to dream about CDE while typing away on MS Word on Windows 3.11. It's amazing to see how much desktop scene has evolved and CDE has aged quite well

• Please keep going. Good job. I propose an Common Desktop Environment ISO for tests.

• Really good to see CDE still working. My Raspberry Pi now looks just like an old HP 9000 or RS/6000. Excellent.

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