https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1suvkeu/cde_desktop_in_a_single_html_file_no_build_tools/

toto je tiez slusna retro zabava. hlavne ked sa clovek odloguje a naloguje nanovo, uplne flashbacky z mladosti :)



Hey folks, longtime lurker here. I've always loved the look of CDE running on old Solaris and IRIX boxes, that teal-gray desktop, the orange titlebars, the Front Panel with the analog clock. So I spent some evenings recreating it as a browser toy.

It's a single index.html file. No Node, no npm, no build step. You literally double-click it and you get:

- Motif 3D beveled windows (draggable, resizable, focus-switching)
- The Front Panel with analog clock, workspace switcher, HDD LED
- A working terminal with ~40 commands against a fake Debian filesystem (ls, vi, grep, ps, sudo, ssh, tar, man pages...)
- File Manager, Style Manager, Text Editor
- Playable chess with a minimax AI
- Fake Netscape-style browser, FTP client, IRC client It's a hobby project, not a pixel-perfect emulator, the goal was the vibe, not the spec.

Repo: https://github.com/igtoth/cde-motif-desktop

Live demo: https://toth.ighor.com/cde/
MIT licensed. Contributions welcome, especially from anyone who actually used CDE in anger back in the day and wants to correct my inaccuracies.