Completely Free Motif for x11 graphical applications (GNU/GPL, but not under LGPL) ?
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I understand, you are completely right. Non-GPL licensed projects are important.
To clarify, I wasn't being snide, just curious about your choice of license. To me the purpose of (open source licensed) library is to be useful to as many people as possible by allowing them to concentrate on the task at hand instead of rebuilding stuff that's already been done (otherwise why release open source library at all?). Since licenses other than GPL exist, releasing GPL licensed library prevents many projects from linking against it and limits its usefulness.
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Originally Posted by Xeratul
Are you familiar with motif? It looks to me underrated or depreciated, compared to GTK, QT, KDE.
Sorry, no, I'm only aware of its existence. I have very little experience with GUI programming. I'm guessing the reasons why it's not being used actively nowadays is that Linux desktop is dominated by highly integrated desktop environments, most of which are written using Qt or GTK+, and Motif applications just don't integrate into these DEs very well. Also Qt and GTK+ provide more functionality for developers.
Sorry, no, I'm only aware of its existence. I have very little experience with GUI programming. I'm guessing the reasons why it's not being used actively nowadays is that Linux desktop is dominated by highly integrated desktop environments, most of which are written using Qt or GTK+, and Motif applications just don't integrate into these DEs very well. Also Qt and GTK+ provide more functionality for developers.
Sorry too, but still, I don't understand.
You said "Linux desktop is dominated by highly integrated desktop environments", but why actually. I don't understand, the motif and FLTK are completely underrated.
GTK+ comes all the time first. There is no early X11/simple minimalist/cde/motif unix philosophy, - or at least not that much, which is left behind. If you look at the repositories of respectful Debian, there is almost no lightweight simple x11 applications and either motif, which are left.
I don't understand. Why to bring on Desktop to users the use of using over heavily on dependencies, - perl,..., and so on.
"Motif applications just don't integrate into these DEs very well"
I believe that Unix / Linux is getting comfortable and influenced by users that come from Windows world. They want to have something similar, which is maybe visual comfort.
There is a same function, and even more, in using "less shining" graphical applications.
Those DE are taking more memory and react less fast.
Well, this is evolution, and old good programs - hardware/memory efficient and reliable, are getting dead and disappearing, sometimes.
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I understand what you are saying regarding the use of these big libraries, but that is just the way it is, the majority of people want the latest & greatest.
Personally, I'd be happy if everything was curses based, but they just don't make them like that any more. Mostly because of the internet needing so many more programs just to get web browsers to read modern websites.
I understand what you are saying regarding the use of these big libraries, but that is just the way it is, the majority of people want the latest & greatest.
Personally, I'd be happy if everything was curses based, but they just don't make them like that any more. Mostly because of the internet needing so many more programs just to get web browsers to read modern websites.
My favourite file manager is still mc.
Me too, command line is my world, with numerous pdcurses/ncurses.
- Let's challenge each other on ncurses, get ready?
mc is good one, but I missed the hjkl and complete freedom. you want that one with super hjkl key bindings, to reach speed of light and fly through your documents? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sp.../master/nc.png
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