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

[Thomas Adam]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:21:30 +0100
Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:

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

That was when your hair was not grey? :))
 
> 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.

Yes, this is so -- but more importantly it was the widget set that was
taken up by Sun for use on their CDE environment, and mwm itself. This
got the support it needed for its continued development.

Then along came Qt and GTK and, well, you know the rest. :) But motif
(in the form of openmotif and lesstif) is still being used and developed
today -- probably more than you think. :)

So I'm happy. :)

-- Thomas Adam

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