Brian Cameron wrote: > >>> So your telling me my program "Pro-Engineer" won't run soon (if >>> SXCE is >>> gone and only OpenSolaris exist). Pro-Engineer currently needs the >>> closed binaries from Motif. If this is what is planned for Solaris >>> 11, >>> your going to break the binary compatibility. > > OpenSolaris is not Solaris 11. In order to preserve binary > compatibility, any future release of Solaris 11 would need to ship > Motif. I am pretty sure Motif has not been EOL'ed or EOF'ed. Only > CDE is being removed from future Solaris releases. > > As Glynn mentioned, Sun will likely release Motif and other interesting > non-free components which can be installed on top of OpenSolaris so > users running things like Pro-Engineer can work in the OpenSolaris > world. > > Also, there is some discussion that it would be nice to integrate > OpenMotif into OpenSolaris. Since OpenMotif is probably better > supported these days, the ProEngineer folks might have an interest > in moving towards using it. Better yet, would they consider switching > to GTK+? Might be good to ask the ProEngineer folks if they have a plan > for future support on OpenSolaris that is better than requiring users to > install the Motif add-on (which is not yet available). > > Brian >
PTC the manufacturer of Pro-Engineer must of had a version that either ran on OpenMotif or GTK. Their current release is now at WF4, but WF2 and WF3 ran on Linux. For WF4 they dropped support. I think it would be nice if they went to GTK+?, maybe it would solve the window focus issues I have when not running on CDE. Paul
