Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Fair enough. I think most of the claims have been factual. Certainly,
my original statement, that Motif is legacy code and new application
developers shouldn't be writing code for it is most definitely true, at
least in the context where it was worded, which is here in the
OpenSolaris community. Whether it is or is not true in other contexts
is not something I can accurately judge, although I know *I* wouldn't be
wasting my time on CDE or Motif development these days.
It's dead, Jim.
What desktop environments use Motif? Yes, you can run a binary that
makes calls into Motif on either Gnome or KDE, but it looks fugly,
doesn't inter-operate properly and shouts "obsolete" from the
rooftops.
It's also a PITA to program; I know - I did a lot of performance
work on CDE back in the early 90s. There was a reason we referred
to it as "Mogrief".
- Bart
--
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