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Had never heard of CDE before. I guess this is what my nephew feels when he sees a floppy disk and connects it to the save icon on PCs :-) As an aside, it woul

Had never heard of CDE before. I guess this is what my nephew feels when he sees a floppy disk and connects it to the save icon on PCs :-) As an aside, it would be a treat to have a GUI environment that is started from scratch with the Unix philosophy at core. GNOME is not it, for it is so heavily packaged with stuff I don't need, and is slow and heavy.

cturner 9y ago
The Unix philosophy GUI thing has been done in a few directions. Plan9 did "absolutely everything is a data stream". Connect anything to anything in a bitmapped desktop. BeOS/haiku did "everything is an icon". Applications are not monoliths. Rather, they are organic on top of the GUI and filesystem. Tiling windows managers steer towards a usage of multiplexing terminals (and needing little else).
jlebrech 9y ago
cde is kde's uncle
rhabarba 9y ago
I doubt that "the Unix philosophy" - do one thing well - is applicable to the increasingly more complicated world of GUIs, except the basic window managers like cwm.
- swiley 9y ago
  Most things really don't need a GUI unless you're actually viewing or manipulating graphical data. Even then it's often nicer to have a text format that describes it.
  - digi_owl 9y ago
    For some reason find myself reaching for TUIs again and again. Especially ones that mimic the Borland behavior.
pmarin 9y ago
You can always use a window manager and some xterms. It is what I have been using for 20 years.
morganvachon 9y ago
Openbox is a good option for Linux. It's a floating window manager that has minimal build requirements and is configured via text files, though GUI configuration tools exist for those so inclined. Its menu system supports pipe menus, and you can make it look like nearly anything you want. The Lumina desktop is another contender; it's a project by the TrueOS/PC-BSD folks and it's coming along nicely. It also has minimal requirements and while it's made for BSD it also works well on Linux.

cturner 9y ago

The Unix philosophy GUI thing has been done in a few directions. Plan9 did "absolutely everything is a data stream". Connect anything to anything in a bitmapped desktop. BeOS/haiku did "everything is an icon". Applications are not monoliths. Rather, they are organic on top of the GUI and filesystem. Tiling windows managers steer towards a usage of multiplexing terminals (and needing little else).

jlebrech 9y ago

cde is kde's uncle

rhabarba 9y ago

I doubt that "the Unix philosophy" - do one thing well - is applicable to the increasingly more complicated world of GUIs, except the basic window managers like cwm.

swiley 9y ago
Most things really don't need a GUI unless you're actually viewing or manipulating graphical data. Even then it's often nicer to have a text format that describes it.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  For some reason find myself reaching for TUIs again and again. Especially ones that mimic the Borland behavior.

pmarin 9y ago

You can always use a window manager and some xterms. It is what I have been using for 20 years.

morganvachon 9y ago

Openbox is a good option for Linux. It's a floating window manager that has minimal build requirements and is configured via text files, though GUI configuration tools exist for those so inclined. Its menu system supports pipe menus, and you can make it look like nearly anything you want. The Lumina desktop is another contender; it's a project by the TrueOS/PC-BSD folks and it's coming along nicely. It also has minimal requirements and while it's made for BSD it also works well on Linux.