![]() ![]() ![]() I mentioned in my first post that I didn’t remember there being a convenient application menu under CDE like in NsCDE. For CDE they only get applied when one logs in and back out. More importantly it has the ability to preview and apply the changes instantly. Second, because it is built on FVWM and with knowledge of the different GTK and Qt frameworks it has options for those themes. First, NsCDE has a lot more styles to pick from. The style managers have similar concepts but very different executions, with NsCDE having more configurability. The GKrellM (seen in screenshots below) live process viewer shows far more details about all the sensors available on the system than the standard CDE one, which just shows CPU usage and is hard to configure. Overall though it is a very faithful recreation. The spacing of the items on the toolbox are a bit larger under NsCDE so for the same screen size it takes up a bit more room. The icons in the minimized state are sometimes different but that is because they are different apps. They have very similar but not identical font renderings. They are both running the default color scheme but are configurable. ![]() Let’s start with as direct a comparison of the two desktops:Īs one can see these two on the surface are very similar. Beyond that though how does NsCDE stack up to actual CDE: Desktops Lastly both of them handle modern GNOME apps horribly both in terms of rendering and access to resizing controls. CDE also seems to often have dirty buffers which require either sweeping with an active window or restarting the display manager to clear properly. It is hard to tell if you have focus on the box and it doesn’t echo masked characters as you type so you can’t tell if you are typing a password or not. ![]() Likewise CDE’s lock screen’s password entry box doesn’t seem to work well. For example with CDE I can’t seem to get the “Install Icon” button to work on any menu while it works fine under NsCDE. For the most part both of these are pretty stable but neither are bug free. We then reboot the machine and on the next time we log in we can select CDE from our desktop environments: Comparisons Features and Bugsīefore I get to the graphical comparisons I’d like to compare some of the features and bugs. Sudo cp contrib/desktopentry/cde.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/ ![]()
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