Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:56:39 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: rlyon@ozemail.com.au (Richard Lyon) Cc: kline@tera.com, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, imdave@synet.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net access to motif? Is this a goofy idea or what? Message-ID: <199612052156.NAA11908@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961206092530.196A-100000@rlyon.mynet.au> from Richard Lyon at "Dec 6, 96 09:32:51 am"
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According to Richard Lyon: > > > On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Closer and closer. The Hungry Programmers are also working > > on XWord, which may be close to Word. Or maybe not! Anyway, > > hats off to the Lesstif bunch. > > > > When Lesstif is good enough to replace Motif, I'd be willing > > to do some of the ports. > > > > mwm seems to be working ok. It has been running few a few weeks on 2.1.5. > All the configuration data and menus we use on HP machines at work run > with no problems. Porting apps to the final product should be a > relatively straight forward procedure. > > Maybe then we can eliminate those X programs with weird interfaces and > have a friendly consistent interface. > Sounds like it is time to download the latest version of Lesstif and try it out. Thanks for the update. You're right about eliminating the Xware with strange interface libraries. I'm all for people making a buck with FBSD--selling their port of motif or whatever. ...At the same time, since Lesstif is here, let's drop it in see what happens. gary >
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