Motif (getting nedit to work with lesstif)

[Joerg Fischer]

Thomas Orgis wrote:

> That's why I asked for your snapshot;-)

If I would be certain to find the right thing after roughly 4 years, I
had no problem sending it.

> > It wasn't only me who predicted this roughly five years ago.
> 
> So what is the message here? 

It's a bit late.

> Actually, I notice the absence of actual developers in this
> discussion (people mentioned as developers in the nedit version
> info).

Some time ago I tried to gather some background information on
http://nedit.gmxhome.de/history.html

Understanding the history of nedit, you'll see this was never a Linux
project.  It was developed on Unix machines at a time where Linux (not
to mention gtk or any other of the free toolkits) wasn't available.
The creator of NEdit wasn't related to free software, although he did
a lot to make it possible to release NEdit under GPL. (This was as
late as version 5.1.1.)

Most developers are no Linux guys, either. I think even today NEdit is
still more popular on Unix systems than on Linux. This is also related
to the toolkit. One argument of developers was why to switch the
toolkit if it is not readily available on Unix. Perhaps after Solaris
switched to gtk, the chances increase ...

> PS: Joerg: Sorry for stressing your patience with this repetitive
> thread... the hope doesn't want to die.

What rather stressed my patience was Vista, since the Linux kernel
caused a problem on my new laptop.  Well, now after a BIOS update
things are working fine, and I don't feel stressed but just wondering
which desktop to use. Surely not KDE, rather Xfce or even just icewm,
let's see :-)

--Jörg