Why is gnome better? RE: [Sussex] Promoting SLUG

[Steve Dobson]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:35:55PM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:09:19PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Motif rules!
> >
> > God, Thomas, I don't think even the OSF say that Motif rules anymore. :-)
> >
> 
> Now _you_ are making me fell old.
> 
> I remember gradually being persuaded to abandon Sun's OpenWindows look/feel
> for the "upstart" Motif...

Mark, you're not that old.  Believe me here.

> ... my first ever programming job was in the Sun XView library :-)

I programmed in forerunner to XView (OpenView IIRC) and that was back
in 1988!

XView had a lot going for it, it was clean and simple to use.  But it didn't
have a rich widget set which is why I think Motif won.

Steve D