On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@krypton.stern.nyu.edu wrote:
> > > Great proposition. Unfortunately, both lesstif and gtk developers > > > flamed me heavily while I was lurking on their lists :) May be it's my > > > problem though... > > > > could be. it's hard to imagine that a lurker would get flamed. people > > usually only get flamed for saying something annoying. > > Oh, yeah. I was saying very annoying things. Like the one that gtk people > broke the X naming conventions. And that the goal of lesstif is > theoretically unachievable in a way it is stated on their homepage > due to the nature of X... it may have had something to do with the *way* you said it. people tend to respond negatively to things that they perceive as an attack whether intentional or not. that's something to think about, anyway.... > > as i said, open source is only ONE of my criteria. a very important one, > > but not the only one. fortunately, netscape is being released as an open > > source project next month so this anomaly will be gone. > > Yes, but I wouldn't get that excited about it. Remember, Netscape uses > Motif (and as any other decent Motif product, not only Motif, but some > other add-on *commercial* widgets). which is why porting netscape to gtk is at (or near) the top of the open source netscape wishlist. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
