Future of NEdit?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Aaron Hsu wrote:

> While I can appreciate that many people are using other toolkits these  
> days, I think it unwise to consider NEdit's use of Motif as a problem.  

If I do "apt-get remove lesstif2 libmotif" on my Ubuntu system
the package manager tells me that if these libraries are removed
it will also have to remove two applications which use these
libraries; nedit and mgdiff.

If I do the same for the Qt libraries, there are 27 applications that
will be removed while for GTK+ libraries there 370.

> Firstly, Motif is far from a dead toolkit.

Both lesstif and open motif have numerous bugs that don't seem to 
get fixed.

> Second, it is for the most  
> part, more stable, IME, than the other toolkits around.

That may be true of commercial Motif, its not true of either
lesstif or open motif. In fact on a daily basis, I see more
lesstiff/open motif bugs with the 2 motif apps I use that I
see with the many dozen GTK+ apps I use.

Erik
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