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Hi!
Am 11.01.2005 um 04:15 schrieb Daniel Nilsson:
While working on fixing the problems with the mode buttons only working on some combinations of X and window managers I realized how old the Athena Widgets are by now.
It should be notet here, that the purpose of Athena Widgets was to demonstrate the usage of the X Toolkit Intrinsics Xt.
As other people noticed, finding good documentation is a little hard but more importantly getting help is not easy at all. I asked for help in a few related newsgroups but the answers I got were not terribly helpful.
Since Xaw is so ugly, almost nobody learns Xaw and X Toolkit Intrinsics. Everybody is attracted by the nice Look of Qt or gtk, but both of them are not Xt based but have their own basic framework.
Motif is, as well as Xaw, X11 Toolkit based, but as a comercial product lots of people prefer something free. Since Motif is almost as old as Xaw, lots of newer UI features are missing there, too.
What I really hate about all those so called widget sets is that alost each of them does have its own framework. So it's not only learning the new UI controls, but also learning the new framework.
Allthough I personally would use Motif, for pcb I would suggest to use gtk, because gschem & co are also based on gtk. This was, pcb could benefit from gschem developers and vice versa.
Doing a little research and following similar discussions on the GTK list I think baseing a layout program on the GnomeCanvas would be fairly straightforward
Allthough I am in favour of using Gtk for Pcb, I would not like to toss Gnome into the boat, here.
73, Mario
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