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[gtk-list] Re: Help moving from Xt to Gtk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Stone)
Sat Oct 3 00:12:22 1998
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:14:06 +0900 (JST)
From: Scott Stone <sstone@ume.pht.co.jp>
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> I'm not saying that gtk is in any way deficient for abandoning Xt. It's
> just that if it had kept to the Xt model then the programs that already
> exist for Xaw/OPENLOOK/Xm would be easier to retarget to Gtk just by
> changing the classes and the libraries linked with.
>
> --Jason
... but you would have also inherited a lot of Xaw's liabilities, too,
most likely. I say it's worth the effort to port. Heck, I've got to port
about 10 apps of my own from perl-Tk now - that'll surely be fun :)
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Ted Lemon wrote:
>
> >
> > > As you surmised, Gtk is nowhere nere Xt/Xaw and that's too bad
> > > because this prevents almost pluggable conversion of Xaw programs to
> > > Gtk.
> >
> > I learned to program X with the old Xt/Xaw stuff, and I have to say
> > that I consider its absence a feature, not a bug. It was an
> > interesting experiment, and by no means a failure, but I am quite
> > impressed with the model that Gtk follows, and I think the difference
> > is worth the porting cost.
> >
> > _MelloN_
> >
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