Put the playing field has now been changed. Extensions to Motif are still
possible with add-on libraries, however things like tool-tips, bubble help or
whatever you want to call it, would be better done by a few dozen lines of code
in Primitive, as opposed to sub-classing _every_ primitive to get this. And yes
I know you can get this without sub-classing, but in general it is rather
kludgy. Up until now, that is the only way it could be done. Now you can do it
the right way, with OpenMotif, and be out of luck on the comercial OS's. Sort
of a 180 degree reversal from a few days ago..
As for the Netscape fiasco...Do you think they would make the same decisions in
light of recent happenings???
On 16-May-00 at 22:45, Jack Howarth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Rick,
> I guess the issue is why someone would be working on lesstif in
> the first place. I had always assumed it was because they wanted
> to have Motif. If that is the case, as long as you are on an Open
> Source platform that need is now met with Open Motif. On those
> other platforms Motif is generally already installed. Sure one can
> argue that extensions of Motif are required but aren't those already
> possible with add-on libraries as opposed to having to modify the
> existing Motif source? Frankly, I think this misses the more important
> issue. There simply is not much excitement these days about
> Motif programming. I think the Lesstif programmers would be better
> served by redirecting their efforts towards changing that by
> starting interesting group projects programmed in Motif. After all
> no one is helped if, despite the release of Open Motif and the
> maturation of Lesstif, we are reduced to compiling the few
> older programs like nedit, plan, etc. What we need to folks to
> start major new projects in Motif rather than gtk or qt. The fact
> that Mozilla chose to move to gtk speaks volumes on the situation
> with Motif.
> Jack
>
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