Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:36:59 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, opsys@mail.webspan.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mozilla motif -> gtk Message-ID: <19980410233659.21753@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <19980410155205.57649@urh.uiuc.edu>; from dannyman on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 03:52:05PM -0500 References: <199804100703.AAA10494@rah.star-gate.com> <199804100714.RAA00910@cimlogic.com.au> <19980410155205.57649@urh.uiuc.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 03:52:05PM -0500, dannyman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 05:14:40PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > > > My stumbling block is Motif. > > I won't buy from Xig because they penalize me for not being american. > > They want to charge me US$40 more for the same english language product. > > I hope I'm not the first to suggest this, but the gtk folks, or is it the > qt folks? Well, whoever it is they've ported Netscape, albeit somewhat > crudely yet, to their toolkit already, to the tune of a slightly prettier > interface and a leaner executable. I could scratch up the URL if you > haven't been told about it already. :) I'd agree that don't even bother with Motif. The Qt folks have pulled off the port in the incredible "mythical man-month", available at http://www.troll.no/qtscape/ The Gtk folks are probably not too far behind. At any rate, it looks damned impressive for Qt. -Mark > > -dan > > -- > // dannyman yori aiokomete || Our Honored Symbol deserves > \\/ http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ || an Honorable Retirement (UIUC) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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