On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:45:37 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steve Underwood wrote: > >>>> > >>> Installing lesstif is a waste of time. Its a useless piece of junk, > >>> and people like RedHat and other distribution vendors are to blame. > >>> It was moving alone nicely until they decided OpenMotif was good. By > >>> the time they decided it was bad people had given up working on > >>> lesstif. Maybe it was all a big plot to kill off the motif world > >>> completely. > >> > >> Motif had plenty of time to make itself available before anyone tried > >> to clone it. You don't need to blame anyone else for killing it off. > >> ... > And they never did - which is why there are only a few packages that > require it. Unfortunately they are the ones that cared about following > standards at the time... > Rant from the old grumpy man, starting in this bussines at 1974 on the CDC Cyber72. Now i'm using mxterm, xterm with the motif look, compiled with the lesstif. And i dislike all the other (gnome,kde,qt,gtk,a,whatever...)terminals. Maybe i'm orthodox, but i like motif and CDE. And i like times, when everything can be defined thru .Xdefaults, .app-defaults and -xrm. Now i'm using fvwm and fighting with the ~/.gtkrc*, ~/.gconf*, ~/.kde*, ~/.qt, themes to get appearance which i wish. Not yet :-( Regards, Bob
