>>> It's not outdated since it's actively maintained. I agree that it >>> isn't eye-candy at all. But I would say it's easier to program than >>> ncurses. It has a loot of widgets. The advantage of ncurses is obviously >>> that it can run without X, therefore on very small systems; I wouldn't >>> say it's the simplicity of programming.
By "outdated" I actually mean the technology behind. It can be lightweight but still supports less features than gtk+2 (which is by the way easy as well). I can't really imagine something written with Motif or XForms these days while curses is quite popular. While XForms is alive I can add that CDE is alive too, but who still uses it. I mean, we have pretty much everything written on gtk+3 (with some gtk+2 exceptions that are becoming rare), qt and curses. And why actually there is no package for it in repository? While we have around 30,000 apps (and 50,000 binaries) in Sid, I think there is a place for both XForms and CDE, assuming they are both fully open-sourced now. Maybe they will be a bit more popular then. My two cents, Mitt _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
