[desktop-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Changes in Solaris future release

[Alan Coopersmith]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>>> I would think that libraries such as Motif that might reasonably be used
>>> by customer-developed applications would never go away; hopefully
>>> Motif at the very least continues to get maintenance...
>>
>> We're still shipping libXol and the XView libraries - Motif will
>> definitely long outlive them.    (Given the Studio tools still
>> include a Motif GUI design tool, Motif is pretty much still actively
>> used.)
> 
>   And Java is also a consumer of Motif. IMHO for the longer term one
>   of the opensource Motif clones like LessTif or OpenMotif should be
>   looked at.

I've suggested OpenMotif multiple times to the Desktop C-Team, but
because it would involve assigning people to work on Motif and clearing
up the OpenMotif licensing issues, I've not succeeded in convincing anyone.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering