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Re:Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015... by pjmlp on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:39AM (#14997226)
GDB already felt like that when we had C++ Builder, Visual C++, Zortech C++ visual debuggers on mid-90's versions of Mac and Windows.

The only debuggers that could match them in usability and graphical debugging features were Motif based ones, being sold as a single product.

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Re:Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015... by exikyut on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:48AM (#15002402)
From a historical-software/UI perspective, I'm curious what that Motif software looks like, and how, er, findable it is.

Studying old systems that have fallen by the wayside can often be instructive.

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Re:Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015... by pjmlp on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:58AM (#15015878)
Still found on Aix and HP-UX systems, which are the surviving ones. Solaris dropped it, and all other commercial big iron UNIXes are dead.

You can get some screenshots here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/

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Re:Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015... by exikyut on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:30AM (#15045896)
Woops, didn't notice this till now. I wasn't referring to Motif itself, rather the debugger programs. Contemporary UIs are always interesting to study!

It's awesome that Motif and CDE are finally open source though.

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