On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:04:50AM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> ..
> > 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.
>
> Yup I use NEdit too.
>
No beef with that... No need to start yet another editor flame war! :)
> I personally don't buy Dido's rants about Motif bugs. True, Motif has bugs
> (who doesn't) and true, Motif uses the Xt library. But then, so does
> Athena, and I don't see anyone complaining about Athena.
>
But Athena is UGLY! :) They never intended Athena to be more than a
demonstration widget set....
> My main gripe with Motif used to be its non-availability. Even today, the
> Motif license is not an open-source one. So for new development, you'd be
> stupid to use Motif. But I think it's still good for existing software out
> there.
Right. But licensing issues are not the only problem with Motif for
new apps. Simply put, the Motif API is ugly and clunky. Having tried
to write programs with Motif, GTK+, and Qt (after a brief flirt with
C++) at various times, I found Motif's API to be the most difficult to
use of all three. I had to put up with it for a very long time
because there was nothing better... I can remember a time when GTK+
didn't exist and well, I never really liked C++ much so I had to
forget about Qt. The Windows UI grew out of Motif, to be sure, but it
has evolved far beyond that. GTK+ and Qt have followed suit. Motif has
not, and with the licensing for it, is unlikely.
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