On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:39:26 -0500, Mark Hatch wrote: >Alexander and et. al., > >We had other, stronger comments regarding the writing style. ;-)
I've spent the last years in university. There I got used to write in a modest, kind way even if someone else claiming to do very, very sophisticated calculations comes up with 1+1=5 ... (yes, in discussions and various other communication methods this would change, of course, but one would rarely _publish_ an article/comment/whatever in the style of that review in question) >However that didn't stop us from adding many of the technical comments to >our TODO list! > >The goal of the people working on OM 2.2+ (and yes there are non-ICS >employees on the team) is to move Motif forward to incorporate features that >should have been added long ago. My personal belief is that change is good >as long as it is tempered with a respect for the compatibility problems of >application developers. Well, in my opinion that published schedule was containing problems and raises questions. You were about to come up every couple of months with new features. Nice in principle, but a key property of Motif is/was stability. Not only it shouldn't easily crash&hang, but also not come up with new stuff each week. It took very long till 2.x reached a wider audience (from what I can tell), and looking at recent public, Motif-based projects Motif 1.2 is still the only choice! (ok, here one tries to get a maximum user base usually w/o telling people to upgrade their old machines) So having Motif 1.2,2.0,2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4,2.5 in 12-18 months doesn't seem to be helpful. Not to mention whether 2.2+ will ever show up on commercial desktops. >We're not perfect here, and like all projects, things don't always move in a >straight line. Public comment is a good thing and it helps improve the work. >But I suspect like many on the Lesstif development team, I respect code >contributions more than complaints! But I don't understand here why it was named "OpenMotif 2.2" and later on after release (if that's true) it get's a bang on its head and is renamed as "development release". If someone has the power to later on withdraw/reposition that product shouldn't one ask "him" in advance?? >Note: For those that don't know it, IST, who hosts the Motif Developer, has >a competing GUI builder for Motif to ICS Builder Xcessory PRO. Yes, something like this came to my mind. --- Alexander Mai [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lesstif mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://terror.hungry.com/mailman/listinfo/lesstif
