Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8
Bob Marcan
bob.marcan at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 17:34:07 UTC 2008
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:45:37 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve Underwood wrote:
> >>>>
> >>> Installing lesstif is a waste of time. Its a useless piece of junk,
> >>> and people like RedHat and other distribution vendors are to blame.
> >>> It was moving alone nicely until they decided OpenMotif was good. By
> >>> the time they decided it was bad people had given up working on
> >>> lesstif. Maybe it was all a big plot to kill off the motif world
> >>> completely.
> >>
> >> Motif had plenty of time to make itself available before anyone tried
> >> to clone it. You don't need to blame anyone else for killing it off.
> >>
...
> And they never did - which is why there are only a few packages that
> require it. Unfortunately they are the ones that cared about following
> standards at the time...
>
Rant from the old grumpy man, starting in this bussines at 1974 on the
CDC Cyber72.
Now i'm using mxterm, xterm with the motif look, compiled with the lesstif.
And i dislike all the other (gnome,kde,qt,gtk,a,whatever...)terminals.
Maybe i'm orthodox, but i like motif and CDE.
And i like times, when everything can be defined
thru .Xdefaults, .app-defaults and -xrm.
Now i'm using fvwm and fighting with the ~/.gtkrc*, ~/.gconf*, ~/.kde*, ~/.qt,
themes to get appearance which i wish. Not yet :-(
Regards, Bob
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