There are two really fine free Motif applications for Linux that I would like to see packages for, and I might make them myself: GIMP and ddd. GIMP is a very nice painting/processing program that is aimed at the Photoshop niche, with plug-ins and the whole thing. DDD is a fabulous graphical front-end to gdb that leaves everything else in the dirt.
I'm wondering what the Debian developers' and users' views are about Motif apps. Should they be available as Debian packages at all? If so, should the binary packages be statically linked, which is gross, or dynamically linked, requiring that you have Motif libraries installed? Maybe both should be available? I personally have Motif installed, and it irks me to have to use a statically-linked Netscrape, so I wouldn't be too thrilled about a bunch of other static Motif apps. Bill Gribble
