From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 13:46:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15346 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:46:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15341 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:46:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA88021; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:51:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:51:20 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Daniel Eischen cc: chuckr@mat.net, green@unixhelp.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XiG Motif - FreeBSD ELF In-Reply-To: <199901122133.QAA04922@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > If you have the sources, the Imakefiles are WAY too b0rked to use :( But it > > can be compiled pretty easily, as evident by my copy of ELF Motif 2.0. But > > I really think: if you want Motif so much, why not just help out the Lesstif > > project with whatever needs to be done? Lesstif is a very usable Motif > > replacement... and seems to be quite a bit less buggy than Motif itself! > > Not to take anything away from the Lesstif folks, but the last time > I tried it, it was very buggy. Perhaps things have changed and it's > worth another look, but one only has so much spare time to contribute > to Free^h^h^h^hOSS projects. I'd rather spend mine fiddling with > FreeBSD bits. lesstif has seen dramatic improvements in the last few months because of Mozilla efforts. Yes, it used to be horrid, this is not the case anymore. > At any rate, this is getting away from -current issues. I just wanted > folks running ELF to express their interest in ELF Accelerated X and > Motif versions to XiG. Already done, with some positive feedback from Xig. -Alfred > > Dan Eischen > eischen@vigrid.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message