This time, on the Common Desktop Environment, which, while it's over 30 years in the making, was only licensed openly in the past decade giving it a new life.
♲ @phoronix@pod.dapor.net:> ### NsCDE 2.3 Released For Modern Desktop Looking Like The Old CDE
A new version of the "Not so Common Desktop Environment" is now
available, a modern Linux desktop that continues to mimic the look and
feel of the old CDE Unix desktop environment...
About a year ago I wrote a post on my blog about installing NsCDE but then went a step further and installed CDE proper to do a comparison of the two on modern Linux systems. #CDE#NsCDE#unix#linuxwww.nequalsonelifestyle.com/20…
I recently tried to compile #CDE desktop env on #ArchLinux using #aur. I wanted to play with it out of nostalgia (we had CDE on some machines at university).
No dice, I always run into a compilation error somewhere half way through #makepkg 😩
Are there any usability studies out there about the design of older operating systems or GUIs for the likes of OS/2, Irix, CDE, NextSTEP?
You can still see many concepts from that era today but some things have been dropped, others added, some have evolved, while others were simply unique. I’ve seen studies for Win95, where decisions behind taskbar and windowing are explained. Is there anything like that for other OS?