On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:45:37 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Steve Underwood wrote:
Installing lesstif is a waste of time. Its a useless piece of junk, and people like RedHat and other distribution vendors are to blame. It was moving alone nicely until they decided OpenMotif was good. By the time they decided it was bad people had given up working on lesstif. Maybe it was all a big plot to kill off the motif world completely.
Motif had plenty of time to make itself available before anyone tried to clone it. You don't need to blame anyone else for killing it off.
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And they never did - which is why there are only a few packages that require it. Unfortunately they are the ones that cared about following standards at the time...
Rant from the old grumpy man, starting in this bussines at 1974 on the CDC Cyber72. Now i'm using mxterm, xterm with the motif look, compiled with the lesstif. And i dislike all the other (gnome,kde,qt,gtk,a,whatever...)terminals. Maybe i'm orthodox, but i like motif and CDE. And i like times, when everything can be defined thru .Xdefaults, .app-defaults and -xrm. Now i'm using fvwm and fighting with the ~/.gtkrc*, ~/.gconf*, ~/.kde*, ~/.qt, themes to get appearance which i wish. Not yet :-(
Regards, Bob