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Common Desktop Environment: History, Art, Standards & Products

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard, and was for a long time the Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations. It helped to influence early implementations of successor projects such as KDE and GNOME…

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Common Desktop Environment topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art, Standards and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Common Desktop Environment.

Related topics
74
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
79
Extracted relationships
23
Concept neighborhoods
39
Bridge connections
79

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 34 topics
Development under CDE project · 14 topics
Overview · 13 topics
License history · 9 topics
Gallery · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Available in
English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
Developer
CDE Project (modern)
License
2012: LGPL-2.0-or-later Original: Proprietary
Operating system
Unix, Unix-like, OpenVMS
Original author
The Open Group
Release
June 1993; 33 years ago (1993-06)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

License history

Development under CDE project

Gallery

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Common Desktop Environment connects Entity context

The extracted context around Common Desktop Environment shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Common Desktop Environment → English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Swedish Another extracted example is Common Desktop Environment → CDE Project (modern). Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Common Desktop Environment

Top relations

Available in · 1
Common Desktop Environment → English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
Developer · 1
Common Desktop Environment → CDE Project (modern)
License · 1
Common Desktop Environment → 2012: LGPL-2.0-or-later Original: Proprietary
Operating system · 1
Common Desktop Environment → Unix, Unix-like, OpenVMS
Original author · 1
Common Desktop Environment → The Open Group
Release · 1
Common Desktop Environment → June 1993; 33 years ago (1993-06)
Repository · 1
Common Desktop Environment → sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code/
Size · 1
Common Desktop Environment → 54.9 MB (source code)
Stable release · 1
Common Desktop Environment → 2.5.3 / November 25, 2025; 8 months ago (2025-11-25)
Type · 1
Common Desktop Environment → Desktop environment

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

cde desktop motif linux software released unix free open environment license release version group solaris source 2012 gnome proprietary project

Common Desktop Environment relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 23 structured relationships around Common Desktop Environment. Examples in this analysis include Common Desktop Environment → Available in → English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Swedish and Common Desktop Environment → Developer → CDE Project (modern). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Common Desktop EnvironmentAvailable inEnglish, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Swedish1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentDeveloperCDE Project (modern)1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentLicense2012: LGPL-2.0-or-later Original: Proprietary1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentOperating systemUnix, Unix-like, OpenVMS1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentOriginal authorThe Open Group1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentReleaseJune 1993; 33 years ago (1993-06)1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentRepositorysf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code/1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentSize54.9 MB (source code)1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentStable release2.5.3 / November 25, 2025; 8 months ago (2025-11-25)1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentTypeDesktop environment1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentWebsitesf.net/projects/cdesktopenv/1.00infobox
Common Desktop EnvironmentWritten inC, C++1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Common Desktop Environment bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Ibm, Openvms and Standard. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Common Desktop Environment
    • Ibm
    • Openvms
    • Standard
    • Gnome
    • Development
    • Solaris
    • Environment
    • Based
    • Gnu
    • Toolkit
    • Time
    • Unix
  • common desktop environment
    • Ibm
    • Openvms
    • Standard
    • Environment
    • Unix
    • Gnome
    • Development
    • Solaris
    • Based
    • Gnu
    • System
    • Toolkit
  • desktop environment
    • Standard
    • Environment
    • Unix
    • Gnome
    • Development
    • Solaris
    • Openvms
    • System
    • Motif
    • Time
    • Release
    • Source
  • free software
    • Software
    • Release
    • Project
    • Unix
    • Linux
    • Open
    • Since
    • Ported
    • License
    • Source
    • August
    • Released
  • common open software environment
    • Group
    • Ibm
    • Openvms
    • Source
    • Release
    • Gnome
    • Project
    • Unix
    • Standard
    • Linux
    • Development
    • Environment
  • visual user environment
    • Gnome
    • Standard
    • Development
    • Openvms
    • Unix
    • Solaris
    • Release
    • Source
    • Group
    • Open
    • Motif
    • Gnu
  • motif window manager
    • Open
    • Toolkit
    • Group
    • License
    • Freebsd
    • Openvms
    • Hp
    • Manager
    • Motif
    • Released
    • System
    • Solaris
  • open software foundation
    • Group
    • Source
    • Release
    • Project
    • Unix
    • Linux
    • Ported
    • Open
    • Software
    • Since
    • Hp
    • Hat

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Common Desktop Environment, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Common Desktop Environment with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Common Desktop Environment — History · splits 45 ⟂ 35
Common Desktop Environment — Development under CDE project · splits 65 ⟂ 15
Common Desktop Environment — Overview · splits 66 ⟂ 14
Common Desktop Environment — License history · splits 70 ⟂ 10
Common Desktop Environment — Gallery · splits 75 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Common Desktop Environment

Nodes80
Edges79
Triples23
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.025
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Common Desktop Environment to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art, Standards & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Common Desktop Environment · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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