For something that hasn't been developed in 12 or 13 years..
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| Author | Content |
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| caitlyn Aug 08, 2012 9:22 PM EDT |
For something that hasn't been developed in 12 or 13 years this is sure getting a lot of press. The big question, which this article raises well, is whether or not someone can take this code and build it into a modern, functional alternative desktop. |
| HoTMetaL Aug 09, 2012 4:01 AM EDT |
The bigger question is why would anybody want to. |
| number6x Aug 09, 2012 8:17 AM EDT |
Why? 12 or 13 years dead. And yet, still more useful than gnome shell. |
| gus3 Aug 09, 2012 7:03 PM EDT |
+1 #6x |
| caitlyn Aug 09, 2012 8:57 PM EDT |
Why? It was excellent in its day and still makes a pretty decent lightweight DE today. It needs updating and sprucing up but there is still some good code in there. Plus... lots of people really liked it :) |
| gus3 Aug 10, 2012 4:24 PM EDT |
I think the point is that the "modern" Gnome Shell is worse off than this "mummified" DE. |
| cr Aug 10, 2012 5:14 PM EDT |
Keep a sharp eye on the CDE devs, then: test their food and water and air,vet their drugs, walk a microwave field-strength meter around their workspaces... Test 'em for Imperius, even. The sheer amount of stupid we've seen shown by the major DE devs had to get in somewhere; even threats to their families wouldn't adequately explain why, just when MS was jumping off a cliff, so many FLOSS devs were there to race them to the bottom. CDE can't be saved if it goes the same way. And see what de Icaza's up to these days: there might be a correlation. Me paranoid? Nahh-- they really are out to get us. We keep bypassing their tollbooths and Stasi checkpoints on the information highway: we're costing them Monopoly money and control. |
| gus3 Aug 10, 2012 5:17 PM EDT |
XFCE and LXDE haven't taken that leap. It won't follow automatically that CDE will. |
| caitlyn Aug 10, 2012 5:41 PM EDT |
The more I look at Unity and GNOME 3 the more I think they really are heading in the right direction for the masses. Sorry, folks, we're not the target audience. |
| gus3 Aug 10, 2012 5:52 PM EDT |
Granted, we're not the masses(*), but does that make Unity/GNOME/etc any less insane? I mean, c'mon, we're using Linux on the desktop, which practically by definition means we aren't the masses! We're using Linux because we refuse to be force-fed insanity from On High "because it's good for you, ungrateful worm". Remember what the four-letter F word stands for in FOSS. (*)Unless there are any Catholics among us... |
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