From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 10 20:33:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27313 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 20:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27303 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 20:32:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18601; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:36:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980410233659.21753@vmunix.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:36:59 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: John Birrell , Amancio Hasty , opsys@mail.webspan.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mozilla motif -> gtk References: <199804100703.AAA10494@rah.star-gate.com> <199804100714.RAA00910@cimlogic.com.au> <19980410155205.57649@urh.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19980410155205.57649@urh.uiuc.edu>; from dannyman on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 03:52:05PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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