Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:00:39AM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> 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...
from your post and Orlando's post, I can see the problems with Motif. I
started using Linux when KDE 1.0 was around already. But really for now, I
think I still stick with nedit as my editor.
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