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Sun was the big gorilla in the marketplace and CDE was based on non-Sun technology. CDE rose out of HP Vue window manager. Motif was considered to be a good c
by shrubble 4y ago
Sun was the big gorilla in the marketplace and CDE was based on non-Sun technology.
CDE rose out of HP Vue window manager.
Motif was considered to be a good choice; some say it is easy to program.
- ben7799 4y agoMotif was pretty horrific to program. It was full of what we would recognize as pointer abuse today. I was always a little upset when Gtk took off in the late 90s, because it had a bunch of similar pointer abuse. It seemed to be heavily influenced by Motif. Qt seemed much better at the time. Java UI (Swing) clearly seemed a big step forward at the time. Tk was pretty nice at the time. A lot of the X stack back then had this kind of stuff. At some point it probably got cleaned up.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoYeah and Sun was never really seemed fully on board with the whole CDE thing anyway. They dropped it for their horribly slow Java desktop environment as soon as they could. Not sure how IBM fared but I think HP-UX had it for longer until they dropped it in 11i