On 24/07/2015 23:48, James Powell wrote:
> CDE is a classic UNIX desktop, but it has long been since viable for
> modern usages.
>
> Xfce, in truth, was a modern replacement for it using Xforms since Motif
> was, at the time, under a different license. It bears the same classic
> layout minus some differences.
>
> However, last I had heard CDE was still unstable with some operations.

My first thought on reading this was that sounds just like CDE used to
be! (Being a CDE user back in the mid-late '90s.)

I used to really like CDE, and am very tempted to give it a try out
sometime soon.