Techokami

Sad that this was done with AI :( Would have been a lot more interesting otherwise! Especially the notifications area, that alone would help improve things. But, we don't want AI contributions in CDE...

Addressing CA-1999-08

...huh? I take it English is not your native language? The UI toolkit has nothing to do with the internal logic of the program. In the case of Dtmail, it needs to be reworked to add SSL support, but then there would be the issue of not being able to handle HTML within emails, which would require adding in some sort of HTML engine. It's a very large ask, and currently I doubt anyone will want to do this, but I could be wrong!

Indeed. Though technically Dtmail could be salvaged if someone were to work on implementing SSL support, but... I get the feeling we're not going to see anyone bother to do so. :(

It's been known that Dtcm is in dire need of being completely reworked. Namely, the daemon that goes with it has some known security issues. Until someone steps up to basically rewrite this, might be a good idea to uhm, not use Dtcm.

Hrmmmmmmmm... I see what's going wrong here. The bevel color is using the 6th color in the palette, when it should be using the 5th. I'm going to try and look at Dtwm's code to try and figure out where this error is.

I used Mageia. So, I can't reproduce this. Wait, so, you can't just... re-run CDE and write down the errors? You are saying that the errors you experienced only happened once? This is very confusing and does not make much sense. What use OS distribution that known good working? Debian. The Linux build guide was written specifically for that distribution.

I have been doing testing with Tim Hentenaar's fork of Motif. Help Manager: currently I believe the crashing is not due to Tim's Motif, but rather from the attempt to make CDE be FHS-clean, as seen in ticket #200. This is because I do recall making patches to fix Help Manager, and I have gotten it to show the first-time user guide. So, it's very likely still trying to look for the other help files in the old, hardcoded locations. Going to leave this one to Reaper as he is working on improving the...