Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8

[Bob Marcan]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:45:37 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Steve Underwood wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>> Installing lesstif is a waste of time. Its a useless piece of junk, 
> >>> and people like RedHat and other distribution vendors are to blame. 
> >>> It was moving alone nicely until they decided OpenMotif was good. By 
> >>> the time they decided it was bad people had given up working on 
> >>> lesstif. Maybe it was all a big plot to kill off the motif world 
> >>> completely.
> >>
> >> Motif had plenty of time to make itself available before anyone tried 
> >> to clone it.  You don't need to blame anyone else for killing it off.
> >>
...
> And they never did - which is why there are only a few packages that 
> require it.  Unfortunately they are the ones that cared about following 
> standards at the time...
> 

Rant from the old grumpy man, starting in this bussines at 1974 on the
CDC Cyber72.
Now i'm using mxterm, xterm with the motif look, compiled with the lesstif.
And i dislike all the other (gnome,kde,qt,gtk,a,whatever...)terminals.
Maybe i'm orthodox, but i like motif and CDE.
And i like times, when everything can be defined
thru .Xdefaults, .app-defaults and -xrm.
Now i'm using fvwm and fighting with the ~/.gtkrc*, ~/.gconf*, ~/.kde*, ~/.qt,
themes to get appearance which i wish. Not yet :-(

Regards, Bob