Motif

[Joerg Fischer]

Thomas Orgis wrote:

> Should I fight for OpenMotif 2.3.1 to make it work?
> Should I rather even get OpenMotif 2.2 instead and make that work 
> (probably more compatible for nedit)?

Unless the OpenGroup releases Motif as free software, I'd say no, don't
support them with contributions. (http://www.marutan.net/cde/)
Btw,  OM versions 2.2.0 - 2.2.2 are listed as "known bad" in
http://nedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nedit/nedit/util/motif.c?revision=1.7&view=markup

> Should I ditch the non-really-free OpenMotif and switch to lesstif 0.95?

Unfortunately, the latest lesstif versions contain more glitches than some
older ones wrt nedit. 

Starting with 94.4 there is even more than just a glitch in there. The key 
sequence Alt+H ESC lets nedit crash. But if someone can fix lesstif, IMO 
it's more worthwhile than doing customization to get OM running.

Generally, all I ever critized was that some even big distributors
built nedit executables and released them w/o making sure they worked.
Often, these were builds using lesstif. However, I don't think I critized
using lesstif as such. 

> That aside, people generally respond with suprise and incomprehension when I talk about > needing that strange proprietary UNIX toolkit, 

Just compare the start-up times of nedit, kedit/kate, and gedit, then tell me 
what is strange. 

> it would be nice if we could at least get a new release of nedit with various fixes
> improvements that are in CVS?

You claim to be a source distribution and you can't do a check-out of
nedit's sources? ;-)

[Btw, there is a tag "BETA-5-6".]

--Jörg