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CDE had some great concepts. It was super consistent, dtksh allowed programming the GUI, fantastic built-in help. If it were not for the probably security-holy code-base, the missing creature comforts like anti-aliasing and dated look will keep me away from it.

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Motif is also a bit chunky, and the serif font looks a bit dated, but it is very consistent, and has well designed colour schemes so very easy on the eye.

The dock was a really useful tool though, drag and drop printing and workspace short cuts. The version I used on HPUX even had a small green blinking activity light like a disk activity light (probably also network) which I loved.

I used the HPUX version mostly as well. I still miss CDE. They waited too long to open source it. I would take CDE over GNOME any day.

Wow, dtksh is very interesting. It looks like tcl/tk just with a POSIX style shell as programming language.

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