[osol-discuss] Re: About Solaris (mistakes) and future

[Justin Zygmont]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Ian Collins wrote:

> UNIX admin wrote:
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>> And to bring CDE into the 21. century, one would need an army of skilled X/Motif engineers... good luck to anyone trying to find that too.
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> If they were around, we probably wouldn't have all those dreadful (an
> installer that requires over 700MB, a development IDE that added nothing
> except several hundred megabytes to its predecessor...) Java GUIs to
> contend with!

ya, CDE was simple and fast, I tried XFCE and it just doesn't cut it. 
Every other GUI these days can't keep it simple, they just have to go 
overboard.