At 11:47 PM 5/17/2000 -0700, Jon Fo wrote:
> >
> > While CDE is based on Motif, I believe it is actually a separate
> > product from Triteal, not The Open Group. Thus, unless Triteal
> > decides to make their product open source, TOG probably has no control
> > over that.
CDE is owned by several hardware vendors and TOG is actually a licensee for
distribution. That could provide some of the complexity behind making CDE
open source. Getting all these vendors to sign over rights using the same
contract could be difficult...
> >
>Which is why none of the "Dt" widgets have "private" files, 'cause
>they didn't want you to subclass their widgets.
>
>If you think about it, unless they open source everything, LessTif
>may be the group that will put the excitement back into Motif, not TOG.
>I know that LessTif's goal has been to achieve compatibility, but
>that will keep LessTif behind the times. Imagine extensions to the
>core widgets that you could enable from a resource file that could
>make old, tired Motif programs look new and cool...just a thought...
Or direct support for GTK+ and QT 2 themes... Then Motif will be no more
ugly then the desktops of all those people that claim that Motif is ugly!
We're working on this over at ICS and will publish a beta in 2-4 weeks on
the MotifZone (phase 1 will be a manual process where a GTK+ theme is
converted to a "Motif Theme" that then is applied at the startup of the
application. Subsequent phases will make this happen on-the-fly) . We
should have the project description up on the Zone within the next day or
so. We don't have a lot of resources to spare in this effort (and other
efforts), so help would be appreciated after we get to alpha (if that is
what the lesstif team decides to do!). This will be released under the
(in)famous Open Group Public License...
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