release of the classic desktop environment (Common Desktop Environment). CDE was developed in the early nineties of the last century by the joint efforts of Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi, and for many years acted as a regular graphics environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX and UnixWare. In 2012, the CDE code was open sourced by The Open Group's CDE 2.1 code consortium under the LGPL.
CDE sources include XDMCP-compliant login manager, user session manager, window manager, CDE FrontPanel, desktop manager, interprocess communication bus, desktop toolkit, shell and C application development tools, integration components third party applications. For a library of interface elements is required , Which was into the category of free projects after CDE.
Major changes:
- All supported languages ββare built again by default;
- All C functions now conform to the ANSI standard;
- Removed all register keywords in C/C++ code;
- Files with images, videos and pdf documents now open in their respective applications;
- Added shortcuts for many modern applications, such as VLC;
- Removed external dependency sgml;
- Instead of the built-in TCL interpreter, the system one is now used;
- Added support for aarch64 architecture;
- Implemented mouse wheel support in dtterm and dtfile applications;
- Removed most of the code to support legacy systems;
- Fixed hundreds of compiler warnings;
- Thousands of fixes after running the code with the Coverity analyzer.
Source: opennet.ru