| which widgets wish? |
April 20th |
| Submitted by Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com> to UI. | |
Netscape uses Motif widgets under Unix. Motif is not free. Some people do not like Motif. So there is a lot of theorizing about changing the widget set to something like GTK.
There are also a lot of theorizing (among different people) that such time would be far better spent on completing the free Motif re-implementation LessTif, which has been a work in progress for quite a long time.
Advocates of working on LessTif correctly point out that Motif is a de facto standard in the UNIX world, and that's not going to change any time soon. A lot of projects would really benefit from having a robust LessTif, so there are side benefits for other free software. And it seems wasteful to have programmers good enough to be worrying about this sort of thing re-working GUI code.
People are going to want to do both, and it's a big world, so go crazy. There's a LessTif mailing list at the LessTif web site, and a GTK list among the mozilla.org mailing lists and newsgroups. Also see QtScape, a Qt port.