Common Desktop Environment

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) 1.3 release contains a set of tools that supplement the CDE 1.2 functionality. It provides simplified end-user access, improved local system administration, and enhanced productivity capabilities. The new tools include:

• Organization and customization of the desktop environment

  • File Finder, which enables you to easily search for files using specified criteria

  • Reorganized, customizable, graphical Front Panel and Workspace menu

  • Per-screen Front Panel for multiple monitor configurations

• Improved local system administration

  • Process Manager, which displays information about system processes

  • Perfmeter, which displays system performance graphically

  • System Info, which displays information about your workstation

• Enhanced Productivity

  • Address Manager, which enables you to create and search for electronic addresses

  • Text and voice notes

CDE applications support Complex Text Layout (CTL) locales.

Motif 2.1

Solaris 7 software supports Motif 2.1, which includes five new Motif widgets and is MT-safe. Motif 2.1 supports ISO standard Complex Text Language locales in which a single binary developed on the Solaris 7 operating environment provides advanced and standard support for Hebrew, Arabic, and Thai customers.

The five new Motif widgets include the following:

• XmNotebook, a full featured widget, provides functionality similar to a notebook or "tab" widget

• XmContainer is a full featured GUI icon "tree" display widget

• XmSpinBox is a user control to increase and decrease a numerical text field.

• XmComboBox is a combination of a text field and a list widget. It provides a popup list of valid choices which automatically puts the selection into the text field.

• XmScale widget has changed to provide a new vertical display