So, about two years ago I decided to install CDE as experiment. The initial goal was to find out whether CDE was still usable almost three decades later.
The experiment has never ended: I'm still using it as my daily driver. CDE's chiseled looked dated at first, but I've got used to it. The interface does not look 'old' to me anymore.
I managed to get a hold of a booked called Configuring CDE: The Common Desktop Environment.
Is there anyone else using CDE every day? I am curious.
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I have a dual monitor hi-dpi setup on my linux PC, and I'm not quite sure about how well CDE supports that kind of setup without forcing myself to lower my resolution and doing other xrandr trickeries.
However I fell in love with the aesthetic after reading about CDE and trying it out in my OpenBSD VM. So I purchased a cheap old Powerbook G4 to top the "classic Unix" aesthetic. It arrived two days ago and I installed OpenBSD and CDE on it. I also installed lxappearance and this theme (https://store.kde.org/p/1231025/) to handle GTK applications, and I'm loving it so far.
The CDE build on OpenBSD/PPC required some hacks here and there, and there are still some stuff that are broken in my installation (Calendar, Mail, Information Manager, Create Action, and probably some other stuff). I'm hoping that I can bring this up to the point that I can use it while traveling.
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This is awesome. Unfortunately on my HiDPI laptop I have not succeed in
using CDE
in a way that my eyes can see the desktop detalis. xrandr does not look
as easy to use in my case.
If I solve this issue I will return to CDE as a daily driver. Of course
the need to support
the new type of fonts (opentype) remains THE big problem for me even on
non-HiDPI screens.
And his relates to HiDPI: if I increase the font size for example the
old Greek fonts that
are available in the format CDE can use, look terrible. So both issues
(fonts and HiDPI)
relate and are the main obstacle for me.
Antonis.
On 3/27/22 10:07 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
On 3/27/22 4:42 AM, Cy F. S. wrote:
tl;dr not quite
I have a dual monitor hi-dpi setup on my linux PC, and I'm not quite
sure about how well CDE supports that kind of setup without forcing
myself to lower my resolution and doing other xrandr trickeries.
However I fell in love with the aesthetic after reading about CDE and
trying it out in my OpenBSD VM. So I purchased a cheap old Powerbook
G4 to top the "classic Unix" aesthetic. It arrived two days ago and I
installed OpenBSD and CDE on it. I also installed lxappearance and
this theme (https://store.kde.org/p/1231025/) to handle GTK
applications, and I'm loving it so far.
The CDE build on OpenBSD/PPC required some hacks here and there, and
there are still some stuff that are broken in my installation
(Calendar, Mail, Information Manager, Create Action, and probably
some other stuff). I'm hoping that I can bring this up to the point
that I can use it while traveling.
So, about two years ago I decided to install CDE as experiment. The initial goal was to find out whether CDE was still usable almost three decades later.
The experiment has never ended: I'm still using it as my daily driver. CDE's chiseled looked dated at first, but I've got used to it. The interface does not look 'old' to me anymore.
I managed to get a hold of a booked called Configuring CDE: The Common Desktop Environment.
Is there anyone else using CDE every day? I am curious.
Last edit: Agontron 2022-03-22
tl;dr not quite
I have a dual monitor hi-dpi setup on my linux PC, and I'm not quite sure about how well CDE supports that kind of setup without forcing myself to lower my resolution and doing other xrandr trickeries.
However I fell in love with the aesthetic after reading about CDE and trying it out in my OpenBSD VM. So I purchased a cheap old Powerbook G4 to top the "classic Unix" aesthetic. It arrived two days ago and I installed OpenBSD and CDE on it. I also installed lxappearance and this theme (https://store.kde.org/p/1231025/) to handle GTK applications, and I'm loving it so far.
The CDE build on OpenBSD/PPC required some hacks here and there, and there are still some stuff that are broken in my installation (Calendar, Mail, Information Manager, Create Action, and probably some other stuff). I'm hoping that I can bring this up to the point that I can use it while traveling.
This is awesome. Unfortunately on my HiDPI laptop I have not succeed in
using CDE
in a way that my eyes can see the desktop detalis. xrandr does not look
as easy to use in my case.
If I solve this issue I will return to CDE as a daily driver. Of course
the need to support
the new type of fonts (opentype) remains THE big problem for me even on
non-HiDPI screens.
And his relates to HiDPI: if I increase the font size for example the
old Greek fonts that
are available in the format CDE can use, look terrible. So both issues
(fonts and HiDPI)
relate and are the main obstacle for me.
Antonis.
On 3/27/22 10:07 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: