Future of NEdit?

[Duane Clark]

Aaron Hsu wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> If I do the same thing on my UNIX machines, I will find almost the  
> exact opposite. I have almost no Qt applications, a select few GTK  
> apps, and most of the others are Motif or Tk. Why does low market  
> share on the toolkit for Open Source communities indicate a bad  
> toolkit or a problem?

The problem is that low market share means that there is not much 
incentive for anyone with the appropriate skills to find and fix 
problems, because those persons are probably not depending on any Motif 
apps.

In Fedora 7 x86_64, openmotif appears to me to be seriously broken, 
while lesstif is less so but still a bit flakey. These bugs appear to me 
to be something that has changed in the underlying X server (which I 
inferred by the behavior when running nedit remotely between systems 
with different X servers). If so, fixing them is probably going to 
require someone with some good X skills.