On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:00:39AM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> > DDD's a great program. Only problem is it's a memory hogging debugger
> > and it uses Motif! I use it as a last resort, for programs that have
> > complicated data structures.
>
> What's wrong with Motif? ;) I still use some Motif apps even though I use a
> lot of KDE and GNOME apps. One of 'em is nedit. I use nedit most of the time
> for text editing and writing programs. I don't know, perhaps it's because I
> got used to it. ;)
>
What is wrong with Motif is that it's a fat library that does way too
much indirection (it is probably the second, and last toolkit library
that used Xt Intrinsics), is full of memory leaks, and is nowhere near
as sophisticated as more modern GUI toolkits; it's evolution has
lagged way behind. I'm happy that Mozilla switched to GTK+ at first
opportunity; probably half the bugs and fat in the original Netscape
came from its use of Motif. The only reason why Motif is still used
at all is because it's something of an industry standard...
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