Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Linux programming manuals
Author: Eric Kidd Posted: 3/6/1999; 8:24:46 AM Topic: DHTML MTTF! Msg #: 3714 (In response to 3688) Prev/Next: 3713 / 3715
That's why I was advocating the elimination of X 2 years ago; sure you'd lose all the X apps, but that's no real loss. Now that we have Gtk+ and Qt I'm not advocating the total destruction of X, but merely of all the other toolkits...Yeah, it's sort of strange, but Gtk+ and Qt are much better toolkits. Motif was designed by a vendor committee, and nobody used it to create real applications until far too late. Gtk+ was written to support a single application, and Qt was the work of a very small company.
X itself is pretty cool--it's nothing more than a network-distributed QuickDraw. (Dave Winer would probably like this, or at least the spirit behind it.) Most of the bletcherous bits are modular, just like the widgets. Because of this modularity, X has survived from the days of the PDP11 until 1999. Not bad, even if it can't anti-alias fonts yet. ;-)
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- Re: Linux programming manuals, Dave Winer, 3/6/1999; 8:32:51 AM
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