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When I worked at HP in the mid 80s I met the guys there that developed the UI design of CDE. Ironically done on Macintosh IIs using Pixelpaint. It was a very nice design.

It was but VUE was way nicer. CDE was boring and businesslike, neutered by the suits from IBM.

I've often said I would LOVE a modernized version of CDE. Smooth out some of the edges, GREATLY improve the font rendering, etc. but keep the feel that this is a system designed for work. I love the polish of macOS, but there's something about the feel of old-school Solaris 8 that I really miss. It felt like it wasn't a toy. It was meant for something more important than that.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

What I really want is HPUX's SAM on this

Yeah SAM was way ahead of its time.

I compared the two, if that sounds of interest:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/28/battle_of_the_retro_d...

Solarized Dark keeps CDE alive for me, sortof.

Did they update dtksh with Korn's final ksh93 release?