Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:17:00AM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
>> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>>> I understand from recent discussions that pcb's lesstif GUI is better
>>> maintained than the GTK+ one. Right now Debian has the GTK+ one only,
>>> because that is configure's default.
>>>
>>> Should we switch to the lesstif GUI? Or provide packages for both? We
>>> could install them as pcb-gtk and pcb-lesstif, and allow the admin to
>>> select which one runs as /usr/bin/pcb.
>> I think both makes sense.  The way the NetBSD package works is there is 
>> a user configurable option that lets you pick which gui.
> 
> Is that per-user, or per-system? 
> 
> Debian has a per-system "alternatives" system which would allow the admin 
> to select whether /usr/bin/pcb is the GTK+ version or the Lesstif
> version, by changing symlinks. The package maintainer specifies
> priorities which set the default if multiple options are installed.
> 
> If you have per-user then I guess you wrote a script and read something
> out of $HOME. It might be useful to have this on Debian too. Can you
> point me at the code, if this is indeed what you have implemented?

no, it is per-system.

It would be cool if the HID's could be shared modules loaded at startup 
time.

-Dan




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