Hi,
Just came back from a conference where one of the Metro Link folks (Stuart
Anderson) pointed out that Motif (2.1.30) was as light as GTK and QT (the X
version, not embedded). The only GUI toolkit with a significantly lighter
footprint was fltk. (See table below for some of the data presented.) It
was explained that fltk was because creating a single Motif widget might
result in several additional widgets being linked into the application.
We've looked at the Motif source code, and it is a basic architectural
decision that would require a full rewrite to reverse. I haven't looked at
the lesstif source, but maybe the lesstif team made a different design
decision?
Mark
Comparative Size of Desktops
Desktop RAM File Size
Motif 5780KB 30mb
Gnome 13896KB 95mb
KDE 10924KB 96mb
Minimal 4584KB 16mb
Minimal = Typical X server, twm, xterm, clock
"Hello World"
Toolkit RAM File Size
Motif 1584KB 1582KB
Gnome 1536KB 2922KB
KDE 1824KB 2668KB
Fltk 728KB 563KB
Athena 960KB 1027KB
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