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Brian Vincent wrote:
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type="cite">On 4/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Gilson</b>
<<a href="mailto:signman359@gmail.com">signman359@gmail.com</a>>
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must say, the turn this conversation has taken is interesting. In
response<br>
to what was written above, it does seem to me a curious precedent
Alexandre<br>
has set. After all, wasn't Wine developed to allow people to get AWAY
from
<br>
Windows? Yet, when we go to make a GUI toolkit to make it accessible
to the<br>
masses, what are we told? Why, write it for Windows, of course.<br>
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1. You never mentioned what you want this "front-end" to
do. I think that's pretty important to whatever you're talking
about. Seems to me it might fit in with winecfg or something else
that already exists.<br>
<br>
2. Did you read the thread(s) about rewriting WineTools that
occurred over the past few months? Are you reinventing that wheel?<br>
<br>
3. Putting a GUI toolkit dependency on Wine will never make
everyone happy. Even worse, you can't even make a majority of
people happy. If you assume GNOME or KDE are available, you're
assuming you're running on Linux. <br>
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-Brian<br>
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Why not use Motif/Lesstif? Sure, it's ugly, but I like it, it's
available with most major distributions, exists on non-Linux targets,
and a precompiled binary of OpenMotif is provided with Sun Java
1.5/Linux<br>
<br>
Then there's the question "OpenMotif or Lesstif, hmm...", which is
answered by ./configure, and I say defult to Lesstif on Linux binaries,
Motif on solaris.<br>
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