C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
What I really don't quite get is what about Motif window manager, mwm?
There are just much nicer alternatives in linux. Plus motif is in the same boat as QT, no one in the linux world wants to support it because it isn't GPL'd. There is lesstif, yes, but gtk offers so much more flexibility, and wings (the widget set used by Windowmaker) is going to be really special as well.
What is going to happen to it? I know this is like fortune telling, but I just thought it would be something to think about. From what I see, Motif, CDE will continue to live on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX,
Commercial unices are going away IMO. Compaq has already announced the discontinuation of Digital Unix development (and good riddance I say, I use OSF1 at school, and it's no prize), and do you really have confidence in sgi's or Sun's long term success at this point?
Will the Gnome stuff be a separate stream then? Will Gnome stuff be the only thing on Linux then? I have no knowledge about Gnome at all, but what is it essentially? How different will > it be compared to Motif?
The easiest way to describe Gnome is Kde sans native window manager. That is one of the reasons why I believe Gnome will eventually succeed and Kde will fail. It isn't proprietary, and people like a choice. The other is license. Gnome is built on gtk (GPL'd), kde on QT (non-GPL) -- ==================================================================== Michael Lankton <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org</A</A>> ==================================================================== - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e