Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:26:17 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: eagle@phc.igs.net Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed GUI toolkit? Message-ID: <XFMail.990307162617.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199903070641.BAA02704@eagle.phc.igs.net>
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On 07-Mar-99 eagle@phc.igs.net wrote: > Terry Lambert was seen writing: > >> I actually believe that the future lies with things like "VNC": >> >> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ >> >> >> Because VNC can replicate frame buffer contents over a network >> (a simplified description, to be sure), you can get rid of most >> of the overhead of X11 by declaring that your network transport >> is a replication mechanism of some kind. >> > I fail to see how this solves the issue at hand, with x library's as > this kind of implementation would have to replace x, destroying the > compatibility with existing software in the proccess. While vnc's frame > buffer replication ideas are indeed interesting, it goes nowhere to > solving the problem that we do have. > > that is quite simply a stable usefull x toolkit, I do agree that mofif > is dead, and that work on it would be aproaching useless though. Motif is dead, but no viable alternative has come forth with regard to usability, license and documentation. GTk+ attempts to, but fails in the rapid Linux bazaar style chaotic way of coding (if anyone of you followed the mailinglists there as well, ye know what I mean). This is a niche we could fill. > So that leaves us with the prospect of designing and implementing a new > gui toolkit. Which was what Brian and myself were aiming at as far as I understood. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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