On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Shawn Walker wrote:
Anyway, here's an example of what to do in any Motif-based
application:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-customlaf/
That says nothing about motif and accessibility. About the only
thing
that I saw there was a "look-and-feel" them to make a java
application
look like a Motif one.
Read the whole article. "Enhance the accessibility of your GUIs
Build a
customizable cross-platform look and feel for visually impaired users"
should give you a clue to what its about. Java (used to?) uses
Motif on
Unix. Motif does accessibility just fine, and better than most.
Claims it doesn't are baseless. Motif IS the standard that you have
to
compete with.
I did read it, and again, I don't see what that has to do with Motif
itself.
Regardless of how you want to label it, Motif is legacy, and is
effectively dead.
<sarcasm> Oh. You're an expert on Motif? Then I guess you'd know.
Well, thanks for telling me. I'll pass on the news to all the people
who apparently didn't get the memo. </sarcasm> The only toolkit
that's
arguably dead is Sun's OpenLook.
I've never used Sun's OpenLook. Regardless, the significant majority
of users on UNIX or UNIX-like systems today are not using Motif. It
has a diminishing userbase, diminishing support, and most resources
are not centered around development using it.
You seem bitter about Motif being a legacy product ;)
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-code mailing list
opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
