Re: GNOME Toolkit

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

I think it was a joke. The line -

"With the UI gurus from Sun on board, (those people who smartly choose
CDE as a UNIX desktop), how can we loose?"

is kind of a tipoff.

--
J5

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:23, Dominic Howells wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 07:49, Zeitgeist wrote:
> > GNOME really needs to move their base over from a new, unstable,
> > untested toolkit to Motif.
> 
> GTK you are talking about? GTK has been stable for years now. Sure there
> are occasionally compatibility breaks but the only way to keep
> compatibility 100% of the time would be to stop any fundemental progress
> on the toolkit.
> 
> > Motif is the world's most mature toolkit for those critical mission
> > applications. This fast, bug-free, attractive toolkit seems the perfect
> > choice from GNOME and related applications.
> 
> Actually isn't Athena the oldest? But what the hell is the relevance of
> this?! At Gnomes beginning it could have been built as another motif
> based desktop but for 101 reasons wasn't. Anyway as you go on to say
> there is CDE if you want a motif dektop. And the 'UI gurus' from Sun et
> al. have been switching their desktop to gnome/gtk from cde/motif.
> 
> I can't really understand this post. Infact the more I look at it I
> think it is a troll. So maybe I got trolled, anyway . . . 
> 
> Dom