Re: tlug: Meeting Saturday August 2

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

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tlug note from Craig Oda <craig@example.com>
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On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

andy>Otemachi. As for themes. CDE sounds interesting. I use it under
andy>Solaris 2.5.1 and HP-UX, but don't know too much about it to be
andy>honest...

Interesting.  I'm using Solaris and HP-UX as well.  I use CDE on
both of them.  I know almost nothing about CDE though.  There is
a usenet group, comp.unix.cde (I think).  I posted once when
I tried to get dtterm on Solaris to display kanji.  I don't have
the Japanese version of Solaris.  I eventually gave up and installed
kterm from source.  

If we discuss CDE, there are probably two parts to chat about, one
is the perspective of a user and the other is a perspective of
a developer.  From a user's perspective it might be kind of
like a comparison between window managers.  It is pretty good
as a window manager.  One thing that I like on AfterStep is the
ability to switch virtual consoles with CTRL-arrow.  On CDE,
I have to do a Alt-Tab to bring up the CDE bar, then use
the arrow keys to get to the right virtual window.  CDE does
have a few interesting things like the calculator and the calendar.
I don't really know how to use the calculator, so if someone
could show me how to use it, I would be really interested.  The
reverse polish HP15C calculator on HPUX was pretty awesome.

I don't have the Linux version of CDE, but I've often thought
about it so that I can keep everything in sync.  The CDE
development environment looks pretty muzukashii.  For me
the Java AWT is good enough.  

One thing that I'm really interested in is how CDE sets the
Locale and what is needed to make Japanese start to happen.

I'm planning on being there at the meeting. 

Regards,
Craig


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