On 18-Sep-00 at 19:31, Carlos A M dos Santos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote: > 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".
...as they are fighting to put the features into GTK thatat are already present
in Motif......
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