CDE Interface
CDEインターフェース / 1993–2000s / Style / Platform Screen Languages
The Common Desktop Environment unified UNIX workstations through Motif-derived bevels, a persistent Front Panel, workspace switching and low-color icons, making different hardware feel like one workplace.
Box-like Front Panel along the lower edge / Raised buttons and recessed fields made from paired light and dark borders / Low-color pixel icons with dark outlines / Persistent buttons for switching among workspaces
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Shipping one desktop and business application language across UNIX workstations · Reconstructing a 1990s technical terminal with its operating structure intact
- Type
- Use brief system type and labels that remain distinct at small sizes.
- Composition
- Layer work windows centrally and keep the Front Panel and workspace switch along the lower edge.
- Material
- Place a light top-left edge and dark bottom-right edge on mid-tone surfaces, reversing the bevel only on press.
- Caution
- Gray bevels alone are not CDE. Front Panel, workspaces and Motif state rules must work as one environment.
- Further study
- CDE Style Guide / Front Panel and workspace switch / Motif visual hierarchy
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