On 15-May-00 at 19:54, Matthias Buelow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Alexander Mai wrote:
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> >>I'm wondering how this will impact Lesstif. Are Lesstif
> >>developers precluded from using the source as a guide, even now?
>
> ["Future of LessTif" statement]
>
> I'm missing some kind of battle-cry like "We can do better than this
> stuff." or similar :)
> While OSF/Motif certainly is the reference implementation it is only
> _one_ implementation and needn't necessarily be the best one.
However it is currently the _only_ implementation of Motif 2.1. I have looked
at the docs for Container, Traits, RenderTable, and we are not going to catch
up _real_ quick. If we could move the baseline of LessTif up to the 2.1
reference, add in the parts of Xlt and Xbae, not to mention some of the
knowledge we have gained, we could end up with a kick ass toolkit in short
order. For a while now I have gotten the impression that those working on
LessTif know Motif better that those working on Motif. Please don't sue me, it
is my impression only.... Overall the parts of LessTif that are missing to
achieve Motif functionality are fairly small, but the reason they are missing
at all is because it is dam difficult to figure out what is going on, try it
sometime..... If it wasn't for the threat of lawsuit we could merge, and
probably be way ahead of anything else out there. Okay, first we would have to
get rid of this imake stuff, but I'm sure that could be done fairly quickly.
Well, enough of this rant, my email volume seems to be up a bit today......go
figure....
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> mkb
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