The future of Linux - architecture and package

Joachim Frieben jfrieben at freesurf.fr
Tue Feb 21 15:07:04 UTC 2006


>
> It is anyway, does anyone use motif ? as far as I can see its a good
> extras candidate
>

Not that quickly, there are still several applications of general importance
in Fedora Core that use Open Motif:

 - ddd          GUI for several command-line debuggers,
 - tetex-xdvi   X viewer for DVI files,
 - xpdf         PDF file viewer for the X Window System.

"evince" is very slow and rendering is flaky, so even "xpdf" is not
dispensable yet. For the first two items there is no alternative around the
block, unless someone volunteers to port them to "GTK" in the short run.

 JF





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