On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:40:18PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > I have seen this, too. But when it looks like Motif, does it feel > > like Motif, too? Last time, I tried such an app, the answer was > > no. :-( > > As a Motif developer at the time, no, it didn't. We used it anyway. > > But that's why *I* prefer the option that the GUI is abstracted away > from the application in an application-specific way, and various > interface layers can be added to swap out GUIs. The menu system in > pcb, for example, is data driven now, so you should be able to drop in > ANY menu system, as long as it can call the relevent callbacks (which > still use XEvents, but abstracting that out should be trivial if/when > needed).
I agree with DJ on this one. Some clean architecting now has a potentially big payoff later. It also has the advantage of making it easier for people to contribute internal features without needing to know the gory details of, for example, Xaw! -Dan --
