Benefits of Porting

Benefits of porting to the CDE desktop include:

• Taking advantage of new features offered by CDE

• Providing easy portability on a wide variety of platforms

• Enabling better "ease of use" by ensuring that your application behaves according to the CDE style guidelines

• Providing interoperability with other Solaris CDE applications in areas where the Solaris CDE and OpenWindows environments differ, for example:

  • Window manager interaction

  • Drag and drop

  • Session management