On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Alexander Mai wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:30:39 +0000 (GMT), Carlos A M dos Santos wrote:
>
> >Motif has many features that are not used because using them requires
> >knowing X, Xt, etc. Most of the free software written as "open source" is
> >made by weekend programmers, this is the problem, IMO. [...]
>
> What's the problem here?!? I have no problems with those nice toolkits
> which enables one to write a simple GUI app (some fancy dialogs and
> e.g. a displayed bitmap) in <<50 lines ...
I agree in part. It's easy to create a program with FLTK and Fluid but
it's also easy to create a Motif one using X Designer, but XD is not not
available for free so few people use it.
But that was not my point. I mean weekend programmars don't use Motif but
most of the "Open Source(TM)" comunity seems to judge the quality of a
toolkit by the number of applications written with it, not for their
quality. There are some ideological issues here too: the same people that
said "Netscape is large, slow and bleated" are now saying "Mozilla is
cool".
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