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Me too but for a different reason. It replaced HP's VUE which had a much 'happier' colour scheme, sans-serif fonts and a nicer-looking 'dock'. HP buried VUE pre

Me too but for a different reason. It replaced HP's VUE which had a much 'happier' colour scheme, sans-serif fonts and a nicer-looking 'dock'. HP buried VUE pretty deep after they moved to CDE (which inherited most of the visual design of VUE and some other stuff from the other cooperators IBM and Sun). VUE was what I looked at while studying so it has a strong nostalgic feeling about it for me :) CDE is too different visually to feel 'off'. The colours are too muted and the fonts too traditional. I can see IBM's influence there, VUE was way too 'funky' for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment VUE was never open-sourced sadly and there is no 'remake' of it either like NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE But it's just for nostalgia. I wouldn't use it today. I tried recently (I still own an old HP box with 10.20) but it's just too barebones.

Hegel3DReloaded 5y ago
Hi. I don't know why many people here have focus on things which can be easily configured in mentioned environments. All VUE palettes are exactly the same as CDE palettes, and can be imported into CDE either system palettes directory, or in user's ~/dt one. The same is with NsCDE. For font, you probably have to spend some time to figure out how to change it in CDE, but in NsCDE you can use any font available on your Unix/Linux system. That said, you can make CDE look dark, light, serious, funky, whatever. As someone rightly commented in this thread below: usability of XDG standards, integration with the system and various widgets ... this is the topic, not the theme you can change with a few clicks or 1-2 hours of figuring out and editing.